Jeromy Anglim is a local blogger who covers a lot of the same territory as this blog. His latest post on running command line programs in Windows is particularly helpful.
Learning R by video
Mar 10
For those people who prefer to be shown how to do something rather than read the instructions, there are some videos on using R available online. Here are the ones I know about. Please add links to other similar resources in the comments.
R videos
Learn R Toolkit
What is R? from Revolution Analytics
R Statistics playlist [...]
LaTeX error in beamer
Mar 1
There is a clash between the current versions of the geometry package and the beamer class. So if you update all your packages and try to process a beamer document you will get the following error.
! Undefined control sequence.
\Gm@lmargin ->\Geom@lmargin
This is due to a new version of geometry (v5.0).
Until the geometry package developers fix the [...]
Using Google Reader
Feb 16
Google Reader is a fantastic way to keep track of new papers that are appearing in many different journals, and also to follow some of the interesting research blogs (and blogs on other topics) that are out there. Google Reader checks websites for you and lets you know of any new material that appears. Instead of [...]
Top four LaTeX mistakes
Feb 16
There is a nice post today by John Cook on the top four LaTeX mistakes. I see these all the time in draft papers by my students and co-authors.
So you’re wondering what to do once your PhD is finally completed? First, take a holiday. Completing a PhD is an intense and draining exercise, and you should take some time to refresh.
Then you need to decide what career path you prefer. In statistics, there are three choices: the academic route, the semi-academic route and the [...]
Why referee?
Feb 10
There are several reasons why researchers should be willing to provide referee reports.
You learn a lot. If the paper is in your area, then writing a referee report forces you to read it very carefully and engage closely with the research of other people in your field. There’s no better way of understand what is [...]
Writing a referee report
Feb 10
As an editor, I like to see referee reports comprising three sections:
A general summary of the paper and the contribution it makes. You need to highlight here what is new and interesting about the paper, as well as give a summary in a few sentences.
The major problems that need addressing. This is probably the most [...]
iPhone apps for research
Feb 1
I love my iPhone and I thought it might be helpful to others who use iPhones to list the top 10 apps that I find useful for research.
Gmail. It is easy to sync the native iPhone email app with your gmail account and this works pretty well for most purposes. But if you want to [...]
Using DOIs
Dec 27
Almost all papers these days have a DOI and it is worth knowing how to use them.
At the top or bottom of the first page of a paper, you will see something like this:
doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.028
This is a unique and permanent identifier for the paper known as a “Digital Object Identifier”. The part before the forward slash [...]
