My new job involves working with numbers. A lot. So, I started reading about using numbers, and I very much enjoyed ‘The Triumph of Numbers’ by I.B. Cohen (2005). This book gives an historical account not only of how numbers were used in different times, but also of ‘how counting shaped modern life’.
The books [...]
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The Triumph of Numbers – Cohen (2005)
Curving Normality Blog Carnival #3
Once again, it is time for a new edition of the Curving Normality Blog Carnival. Last edition was a bit short, but I’m happy to see that people still have send in their posts, even while I didn’t put out a ‘call for blogs’. Nevertheless, today I present a new edition with interesting posts on morality, war, the afterlife, and religion!
Influence.ME: an R package providing tools for detecting influential data in mixed models.