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Month: April 2015


A Note on Boxplots in R

Posted on April 27, 2015 Updated on September 13, 2020

As a statistical consultant I frequently use boxplots. They're a great way to quickly visualize the distribution of a continuous… Read more

Posted in Continuous distributions, Using R     Tags: boxplots, strip charts, Tukey's Five-Number Summary     4 Comments     


Poisson regression – Ch 6 of Gelman and Hill

Posted on April 23, 2015 Updated on September 13, 2020

Chapter 6 of Gelman and Hill's Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models presents an interesting example of Poisson regression… Read more

Posted in Regression, Using R     Tags: glm, Poisson regression     1 Comment     


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