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Invisible blogs!

Posted in R, Statistics with tags , , on May 4, 2011 by xi'an

Julien just signaled an intermitent disappearance of the posts on the ‘Og, depending on the operating system: Ubuntu 10.10 seems to be working (most of the time!)

while Mac and Windows are having problems… This is beyond my abilities, I have contacted WordPress support, maybe they are working on some new feature, maybe I once again incorporated a wrong character by cut&paste, maybe the end of the ‘Og is near…. I reallly cannot tell what is going on! Thanks to Julien for checking in any case!!!

Update (8:47, 04/05): WordPress confirmed this was not a problem with the ‘Og and that things should now be back to normal. If not, the advice is to clear the recent history, cache and cookies.

R-ecap [-16]

Posted in Books, R, University life with tags , , , , , , , on March 27, 2011 by xi'an

This morning, I noticed that none of my R related posts had appeared on R-bloggers for the past fortnight… After investigating, this was caused by…cut-and-paste! Indeed, when advertising about the special issue of TOMACS Arnaud Doucet and I edit about Monte Carlo methods in Statistics, I copied the main parts from the pdf announcement, straight out of Acrobat, and the word “field” was used, involving a ligature between the f and the i that did not get copied in proper UTF-8:

error on line 434 at column 330: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x0C 0×65 0x6C 0×64

So here are the entries in the ‘Og for the past 16 days that could have been of interest for R-bloggers readers:

Gains from the ‘Og

Posted in Books with tags , , on December 13, 2010 by xi'an

As already pointed out last year on the Og, the links to amazon.com and amazon.fr on this blog are actually susceptible to bring me some gains if a purchase is made following the entry on amazon, thanks to the “Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com/fr“. Not enough to support anything but book purchases, which is nice enough! Here are some surprising items, sold through those links besides the 28 copies of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R

Top ten in 2009

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on January 3, 2010 by xi'an

Here are the top ten entries of this ‘Og, in terms of access in 2009:

Of black swans and bleak prospects 991

Tornado in Central Park 908

Bayes’ Theorem 691

ABC in Paris, June 26 418

Solution manual to Bayesian Core on-line 417

Bayesian p-values 341

Reference prior for logistic regression 326

Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihood 287

Bayesian Core under fire! 257

Anomalies in the Iranian election 236

Happy New Year!