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I am a data scientist living in Saint John, Canada, with over 20 years' experience. I have yet to see a data set I did not like. My analysis stack involves R, Rstudio, Spark-Scala and the Linux command line.

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How scared should we be about convergence warnings in lme4
Aug 7, 2014
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Famous statistical wins and horror stories for teaching purposes
Nov 1, 2019
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What does the anova() command do with a lmer model object?
Dec 18, 2015
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Best factor extraction methods in factor analysis
Feb 24, 2013
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Probability of a single real-life future event: What does it mean when they say that "Hillary has a 75% chance of winning"?
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CHAID vs CRT (or CART)
Jun 8, 2013
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The difference between varimax and oblimin rotations in factor analysis
Aug 24, 2014
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The Differences between Randomized Logistic Regression and Plain-Vanilla Logistic Regression
Jan 2, 2015
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In a multi-level model, what are the practical implications of estimating versus not-estimating random effect correlation parameters?
Jun 19, 2014
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Why squared residuals instead of absolute residuals in OLS estimation?
Dec 16, 2012
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