Monthly Archives: September 2009

Many large surveys are structured as complex sample designs that reflect various stratification considerations. Statistics calculated from such designs must be weighted to reflect the general population of interest. A clear discussion and set of recommendations by four prominent researchers … Continue reading →

Researchers using spatial data are often faced with a mix of data obtained from several levels of scale, aggregation and point reference data. Classical geospatial regressions do not deal with this mix very well, and standard ordinary regressions even worst. … Continue reading →

Spss software has an extensive tutorial built into its product and most first time users will benefit from using it. Additional Spss resources can be found here.

Elsewhere on this Blog I mention various bits and pieces of R software. Now that the fall semester is upon us, we have added many new R BioInformatic packages to the baseline R installation on our research linux cluster. This … Continue reading →