Research tips

 

A blog by Rob J Hyndman 

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  1. “Ele­ments of Sta­tis­ti­cal Learn­ing” now online
  2. A LaTeX tem­plate for a CV
  3. A Stack­Ex­change site for sta­tis­ti­cal analysis?
  4. Aca­d­e­mic cita­tions in the pop­u­lar press
  5. Access­ing jour­nal arti­cles online
  6. Advice to PhD applicants
  7. Akram’s story
  8. Always lis­ten to reviewers
  9. Ani­mated plots in R and LaTeX
  10. Are we get­ting bet­ter at forecasting?
  11. Attend­ing research seminars
  12. Author­ship ethics
  13. Back­ing up
  14. Back­ing up Gmail
  15. Becom­ing a referee
  16. Bench­marks for forecasting
  17. Beware of junk jour­nals and publishers
  18. Build­ing R pack­ages for Windows
  19. Clive Granger (1934–2009)
  20. Com­par­ing HoltWin­ters() and ets()
  21. Con­trol­ling fig­ure and table place­ment in LaTeX
  22. Con­vert­ing eps to pdf
  23. Cre­at­ing a Bib­TeX file from a Google Library
  24. Cross­Val­i­dated Jour­nal Club
  25. Cross­Val­i­dated launched!
  26. Crowd sourc­ing forecasts
  27. Cyclic and sea­sonal time series
  28. Data visu­al­iza­tion videos
  29. Debug­ging in R
  30. Dif­fer­ent results from dif­fer­ent software
  31. Do some­thing else
  32. Dodgy fore­cast­ing
  33. Econo­met­rics and R
  34. Expand your Drop­box space for free
  35. Find­ing an R function
  36. Find­ing LaTeX symbols
  37. Fol­low­ing authors on Google Scholar
  38. Fore­cast esti­ma­tion, eval­u­a­tion and transformation
  39. Fore­cast­ing and time series books
  40. Fore­cast­ing in the news
  41. Fore­cast­ing the recession
  42. Fore­cast­ing time series using R
  43. Fore­cast­ing with long sea­sonal periods
  44. Fore­cast­ing work­shop: Switzer­land, June 2011
  45. Get­ting a LaTeX sys­tem set up on a PC
  46. Get­ting started with XeLaTeX
  47. Giv­ing a research seminar
  48. Google scholar alerts
  49. Ham­ming on research
  50. Happy World Sta­tis­tics Day!
  51. Help for fore­cast­ing practitioners
  52. How good are eco­nomic forecasts?
  53. How to avoid annoy­ing a referee
  54. How to fail a PhD
  55. I’m switch­ing to TeXstudio
  56. In praise of Dropbox
  57. Index­ing in LaTeX
  58. Ini­tial­iz­ing the Holt-Winters method
  59. Installing R
  60. Inter­net surveys
  61. iPhone apps for research
  62. Job adver­tise­ments
  63. Join­ing an edi­to­r­ial board
  64. Jour­nal collections
  65. Kag­gle on TV
  66. LaTeX books
  67. LaTeX help on StackOverflow
  68. LaTeX tem­plates for Monash
  69. LaTeX tips
  70. LaTeX work­shop
  71. Learn Machine Learn­ing at Stan­ford for free
  72. Learn­ing by video
  73. Learn­ing R by video
  74. Lies, damn lies and statistics
  75. Look­ing after your supervisor
  76. Mail­ing lists
  77. Main­tain­ing local LaTeX files
  78. Main­tain­ing your LaTeX soft­ware environment
  79. Major changes to the fore­cast package
  80. Mak­ing a poster in beamer
  81. Man­ag­ing a bib­li­o­graphic database
  82. Math­e­mat­i­cal research and the internet
  83. More on the evils of sta­tis­ti­cal tests
  84. More Stack­Ex­change sites
  85. My stan­dard LaTeX preamble
  86. Neil Post­man on tech­no­log­i­cal change
  87. Online col­lab­o­ra­tive writing
  88. Online math­e­mat­i­cal resources
  89. Orga­ni­za­tion and R
  90. Orga­niz­ing travel
  91. Pre­dic­tion markets
  92. R books
  93. R graph with two y-axes
  94. R help links
  95. R help on StackOverflow
  96. R work­shop
  97. Rec­om­mended freeware
  98. Rec­om­mended sur­vey papers
  99. Ref­er­ee­ing a jour­nal article
  100. Repli­ca­tions and repro­ducible research
  101. Research posi­tion in fore­cast­ing renew­able energy
  102. Research super­vi­sion workshop
  103. Researcher por­tals
  104. RSS feeds for sta­tis­tics journals
  105. RStu­dio: just what I’ve been look­ing for
  106. Sav­ing web pages for later reading
  107. Sched­ul­ing meetings
  108. Search­ing the research literature
  109. Search­ing the sta­tis­ti­cal literature
  110. Seek help when it’s needed
  111. Should you make your work­ing papers public?
  112. Sight what you cite
  113. Six places left for the fore­cast­ing workshop
  114. Social net­work­ing for researchers
  115. Some use­ful exten­sions for Gmail
  116. Songs of Statistics
  117. Squeez­ing space with LaTeX
  118. Stack exchange for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis needs you!
  119. Sta­tis­ti­cal Analy­sis Stack­Ex­change site now available
  120. Sta­tis­ti­cal jokes
  121. Sta­tis­ti­cal tests for vari­able selection
  122. Sta­tis­ti­cian: the dream job
  123. Sta­tis­tics edu­ca­tion journals
  124. Super­vi­sion award
  125. Switch­ing from JabRef to Mendeley
  126. Syn­chro­niz­ing WinEdt and pdf files
  127. Table design
  128. Tables in LaTeX
  129. Take a break
  130. Take note
  131. Ten rules for data analysis
  132. That sync­ing feeling
  133. The 7 secrets of highly suc­cess­ful PhD students
  134. The ARIMAX model muddle
  135. The art of R programming
  136. The falling stan­dard of Eng­lish in research
  137. The maths/stats cri­sis in Aus­tralian education
  138. The scourge of the aca­d­e­mic publishers
  139. The tourism fore­cast­ing competition
  140. Time man­age­ment
  141. Time series cross-validation: an R example
  142. Time series pack­ages on R
  143. Tips for aca­d­e­mic talks
  144. Top four LaTeX mistakes
  145. Tourism fore­cast­ing com­pe­ti­tion ends
  146. Tourism fore­cast­ing com­pe­ti­tion results: part one
  147. Track­ing changes in LaTeX files
  148. Track­ing changes in text files
  149. Trans­form­ing data with zeros
  150. Twenty rules for good graphics
  151. Update on a Stack­Ex­change site for sta­tis­ti­cal analysis
  152. Use fake data and real data
  153. Use Mende­ley to man­age your references
  154. Use­ful LaTeX links
  155. Using DOIs
  156. Using Google Reader
  157. Using per­sonal pro­nouns in research writing
  158. Using TeXs­tu­dio with SumatraPDF
  159. Using the com­mand line in Windows
  160. What should we call the stats Q&A site?
  161. What to do when the PhD is finished?
  162. What you wish you knew before you started a PhD
  163. Why every sta­tis­ti­cian should know about cross-validation
  164. Why God never received tenure
  165. Why I don’t like sta­tis­ti­cal tests
  166. Why R is bet­ter than Excel for teach­ing statistics
  167. Why ref­eree?
  168. Why Word is a bad choice for aca­d­e­mic writing
  169. Words to avoid
  170. Work­flow in R
  171. Writ­ing a ref­eree report
  172. Writ­ing an abstract
  173. Writ­ing mathematics
  174. Writ­ing responses to ref­eree reports
  175. Your name is your brand