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	<description>&#34;The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality&#34;</description>
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		<title>Statistical Tools &#8211; Te Grotenhuis and Van der Weegen (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one teach statistics? Is it more important to start with mathematical thoroughness, or to help students to gain a conceptual understanding first? Few give a comprehensive introduction to statistics for those without the otherwise indispensable mathematical background. Manfred te Grotenhuis and Theo van der Weegen recently published an introductory book on statistics, explaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Triumph of Numbers &#8211; Cohen (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new job involves working with numbers. A lot. So, I started reading about using numbers, and I very much enjoyed &#8216;The Triumph of Numbers&#8217; by I.B. Cohen (2005). This book gives an historical account not only of how numbers were used in different times, but also of &#8216;how counting shaped modern life&#8217;. The books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curving Normality Blog Carnival #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am happy to present to you the first edition of the <i>Curving Normality blog carnival</a>. It is all about the quantitative social sciences, and aims at bringing together high quality blog posts about our lovely profession. With just a few weeks of preparation, I am very pleased with the number of submissions, and especially glad with their quality. Apparently, the quantitative social scientists are quite well represented in the blogosphere!]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Lucia de B. gets re-trial!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch nurse Lucia de B., convicted to a life sentence for the murder on 7 infants during her shifts, is now entitled to a re-trial. Why do I write about it here? Because one of the grounds she was convicted on was a statistical argument. A statistical argument that has been thoroughly contested by prominent statisticians, arguing that according to the court's line of reasoning, <a href="http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/hetero2.pdf">one out of every nine nurses</a> would go to jail!

I have written before about this statistical argument, but did so in Dutch. For those interested, I'll give you a short recap, and a nice movie.]]></description>
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		<title>R-Sessions 11: Tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one most often used function in the analysis of statistical data is the creation of tables. This edition of the R-Sessions describes the use of several functions to do some nifty cross-tabulations. And more.]]></description>
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		<title>R-Sessions 10: Conditionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conditionals, or logicals, are used to check vectors of data against conditions. In practice, this is used to select subsets of data or to recode values. In this edition of the R-Sessions, some of the fundamentals of conditionals are described.]]></description>
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		<title>useR! 2008: Harrell already wrote it &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, Frank E. Harrell Jr. already wrote the book that I would have loved to (be able to) write, probably somewhere at the end of my career. If at all. Fortunately, I can learn a lot very much faster now. I'm talking about a book on statistics that also contains a perspective and opinion on the application statistics. Oh, and Harrell also demonstrates his main arguments in R-Project. And now he is telling me that his philosophy on applied statistics is also condensed in an R-package (the design package). 

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		<title>useR! 2008: Bates excels on mixed models</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Bates excelled during my first tutorial session of the useR! 2008 conference. He gave a three hours talk on mixed models, in which he was able to give an overview on theory and basic specification of these kind of models in R-Project, and to address highly advanced and avant-garde issues as well. I'm impressed. During the brake he was so kind as to answer a question regarding mixed models, that had nothing much to do with what he addressed during his talk. We even ended up having a short but nice talk about dutch politics. ]]></description>
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		<title>R-Sessions 09: Data Manipulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's edition of R-Sessions deals with the manipulation of data that is stored R-Project. Building upon the previous R-Session, attention is paid to recoding of data, ordering, and finally the merging of several sets of data.]]></description>
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		<title>R-Sessions 08: Getting Data into R</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[R-Project provides various ways to enter data. The most basic method is entering is manually, but this tends to get very tedious. An often more useful way is using the read.table command. It has some variants, as will be shown below. Another way of getting data into R is using the clipboard. The back-draw thereof is the loss of some control over the process. Finally, it will be described how data from SPSS can be read in directly.

Only basic ways of entering data into R are shown here. Much more is possible as other functions offer almost unlimited control. Here the emphasis will be on day-to-day usage.]]></description>
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