http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220861 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:45:11 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220861 [...] Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State [...] […] Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State […]

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220347 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:15:49 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220347 I've never used R. (Maybe I should?) Frankly, I can't imagine what plotting every variable against other variable would look like in a scatterplot. Anyway, thanks for the tip! I’ve never used R. (Maybe I should?) Frankly, I can’t imagine what plotting every variable against other variable would look like in a scatterplot. Anyway, thanks for the tip!

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220331 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:30:14 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220331 LemmusLemmus, check out the splom command in R. It produces scatterplot matrices: every variable plotted against every other variable. LemmusLemmus, check out the splom command in R. It produces scatterplot matrices: every variable plotted against every other variable.

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220328 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:08:02 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/09/16/red-state-blue-state-rich-state-poor-state/#comment-220328 Humans evolved to see pictures. (The real world is like pictures, only three-dimensional), they didn't evolve to work with numbers, let alone advanced statistics. That's why I think graphs are generally preferrable. The problem, of course, is that you can't produce a seven-dimensional scatterplot, whereas you can regress a variable on seven other variables. Humans evolved to see pictures. (The real world is like pictures, only three-dimensional), they didn’t evolve to work with numbers, let alone advanced statistics. That’s why I think graphs are generally preferrable. The problem, of course, is that you can’t produce a seven-dimensional scatterplot, whereas you can regress a variable on seven other variables.

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