This is correct. Sadly, the first paragraph of the article contains some glaring errors. "For Markov chains to be effective the current state has to be dependent on the previous state in some way;" This is trivially…
I'm finishing up my PhD this year (haven't set a defense day yet, but I'm aiming for June at this point), and finishing a dissertation requires piles of determination. What I came to realize is that you can't take what…
Possibly. R is really great at doing "fancy" statistical analyses. It's very lousy at doing things like text manipulation. When I have a project that needs some text manipulation on the front end, I frequently use other…
Using '<-' is the general style of the R community. The accepted (but not universal) practice is to use '<-' for assignment and '=' in argument passing. This is a good idea because '<-' and '=' are not…
I'm not interpreting your comment as flippant. :) In terms of shortcuts, that would depend on what they were. Some are fine, others are not. E.g. 'borrowing' answers from other students on homework is a shortcut, but…
This is correct. Sadly, the first paragraph of the article contains some glaring errors. "For Markov chains to be effective the current state has to be dependent on the previous state in some way;" This is trivially…
I'm finishing up my PhD this year (haven't set a defense day yet, but I'm aiming for June at this point), and finishing a dissertation requires piles of determination. What I came to realize is that you can't take what…
Possibly. R is really great at doing "fancy" statistical analyses. It's very lousy at doing things like text manipulation. When I have a project that needs some text manipulation on the front end, I frequently use other…
Using '<-' is the general style of the R community. The accepted (but not universal) practice is to use '<-' for assignment and '=' in argument passing. This is a good idea because '<-' and '=' are not…
I'm not interpreting your comment as flippant. :) In terms of shortcuts, that would depend on what they were. Some are fine, others are not. E.g. 'borrowing' answers from other students on homework is a shortcut, but…