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...terisk experience - while common - is not a prerequisite for working with the SER products, while for Asterisk people SER can often be a next step in scalability and VoIP service delivery platform enhancement that they are just getting into. And so on. There's pollution in the respective discursive spaces; a lot of Asterisk people posting to the SER lists ask a lot of Asterisk-specific questions in addition to any they may have about SER which can be construed as potentially off-topic by some members, and the opposite is true on the Asterisk lists when detailed, involved discussion about...

I've been poking around with GLMs (on which I am *not* an expert) on behalf of a student, particularly binomial (standard logit link) nested models with overdispersion. I have one possible bug to report (but I'm not confident enough to be *sure* it's a bug); one comment on the general inconsistency that seems to afflict the various functions for dealing with overdispersion in GLMs

There is something that I wish I had that I think would help me a lot to be a better R programmer, that I think would probably help many others as well. I put the wish out there in the hopes that someone might think it was worth doing at some point. I wish I had the code of some substantial, widely used package ? lm, say ? heavily annotated and explained at roughly the level of R knowledge of

Dear R-user, I already received quite a lot of replies to this mail and like to do a preliminary sum up. A few were sceptical about the use of such a beginner mailing list. The arguments were that people starting with R will only stay subscribed for a short time until they reached the R-help "level" and therefore only beginner will teach beginner how to use R. But as far