Monthly Archives: October 2009

All pair-wise Multiple Comparisons(MCA) is a well known collection of procedures for the stochastic ordering of means; which is a common research task. Classical methods rely on the assumption that the null hypothesis is true. Modern alternatives can be found … Continue reading →

Spatial scan statistics have been an important class of tools for cluster detection in spatial data. These are often used in support of surveillance and detection activities in public health and other fields. A common limitation of popular spatial scan … Continue reading →

Cluster Analysis(and other tools) are often deployed to investigate structure(clustering) in multidimensional data sets. One approach to model such data is the Gaussian mixture model. mixAK is a new R package for Bayesian estimation of multivariate normal mixtures allowing for … Continue reading →