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WARNING: COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC -- Nothing to do with R. I thought readers of this list might enjoy the following. The link to the full article is at the bottom. I hope this is not "too" inappropriate. ------- Overconfidence in crime statistics doesn?t pay. In a new study, a team of criminologists makes the case that reported crime rates should acknowledge uncertainty in the data. The research demonstrates that rankings of cities as safer or more dangerous ? which can influence tourism and tax spending ? can be highly...

Hello R-users. I believe that the way basehaz (in the survival package) compute the baseline hazard function is false. I come to question this function when it gives me hazard probabilities greater than 1. Looking at the code I think I've localised the error : hazard probability is computed as : H <- -log(surv) but it seems to me that hazard probabilities is rather an instantaneous

Hello, I recently began using R and the lme4 package to carry out linear mixed effects analyses. I am interested in the effects of variables 'prime','time', and 'mood' on 'reaction_time' while taking into account the random effect 'subjects.' I've read through documentation on lme4 and came up with the following formula for use with lmer:

Hello all, As much as I hate saying this, I would like to maintain 2 copies of some data, one copy in the form of a table in a database, and one in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately, either or both copies may be modified, so I need some way to synchronize the two, much the same way as a contacts database might be synchronized between a PDA and a desktop application. I am curious to

After reading through the various SELinux threads, I really became quite perturbed. I mean, really quite perturbed. As an IT Director (and the entire IT department, currently), if I were hiring a sysadmin I know for a fact that someone whose first response to a question on why something doesn't work is 'turn it off' would not get a job here. Neither would a sysadmin with as much

If this information is correct, http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133043 further development of ZFS will take place behind closed doors. Opensolaris will become the internal development version of Solaris with no public distributions. The community has been abandoned. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group- -Computer and Network Services-