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Linking Subplots in R
For the recent Bayesian Analysis workshop, I wanted to created a figure consisting of two subplots, with corresponding features of the two plots linked by lines, as shown below:
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BibTeX Styles – Limnology and Oceanography
TR recently drew my attention to the repository of BibTeX style files for automatically formatting bibliographies according to requirements of various journals.
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More Mapping
Maps, maps everywhere but not a drop to drink. Since our recent article on mapping in R, several articles have appeared on mapping techniques in R.
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Overplot
Overplotting is when one point in a plot obscures another, giving a misleading impression of the density of the data in that area. Overplot is a common problem for larger data sets, or when the data are discrete.
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Sweave and TeXWorks
Sweave is a tool for incorporating R into LaTeX documents. In essence, you write a LaTeX document that contains R code. Sweave strips out this code and runs it, and places the results back in the LaTeX document, allowing you … Continue reading
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Marine Data Literacy
TR has drawn our attention to the Marine Data Literacy site, a collection of resources pertaining to the processing of marine data.
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Simple maps in Matlab
A recent article looked at producing simple maps in R. Here’s one way of doing similar things using Matlab.
Gibbs Sampling from Hidden Markov Models
A number of students are either currently working with or have been asking about the algorithm to Gibbs sample from a hidden Markov model described in Scott, S.L., 2002. Bayesian Methods for Hidden Markov Models. Journal of the American Statistical … Continue reading
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