Monthly Archives: November 2009

Sampling with replacement in R

By Ananda | Published: November 30, 2009

In my last post about sampling (Simple sampling with R) we were doing simple sampling without replacement–that is, each item could only be selected once. However, there are times when you want to simulate sampling with replacement. For example, if you wanted to simulate sampling the results of rolling a dice 50 times, your outcomes [...]

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Simple sampling with R

By Ananda | Published: November 29, 2009

I mentioned in an earlier post (Am I inconsistent?) that I got interested in R because Amy had asked me to help her with some sampling at one point. Since that was my starting point, I thought I would share some of my experiments with you. In this post: Simple random sampling Simple random sampling [...]

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Google Page Creator is gone….

By Ananda | Published: November 23, 2009

And, they didn’t do such a great job of transferring the Google Page Creator content to Google Sites. So, I’ve decided to delete the content from Google Page Creator and transfer it here instead. This site has so much random content already; four more random articles shouldn’t make too much of a difference. Read on [...]

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Do Indians have a sense of humor?

By Ananda | Published: November 23, 2009

AKA “Irony over the stinky river….” Sometimes, just when I begin to not have faith that Indians have a sense of humor, I run across something like this: Near our house, there is an extremely foul river…. actually, it’s hard to even call it a river since it really seems to only flow when the [...]

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Marina Beach

By Ananda | Published: November 23, 2009

AKA “The sweet smelling ocean spray on Chennai’s shores….” Aah. Marina Beach. Great to go people watching. Good place to buy little silly plastic touristy stuff. Smell the fresh ocean breeze. Take a dip in the water to cool off. Or should you?

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Wetwo Brand

By Ananda | Published: November 23, 2009

AKA “Population Control, Indian Style….” Most of the autos and a lot of the yellow-painted vehicles in Chennai have this saying on the back “We two ours one” or sometimes simply “Ours one.” Along with the P. James tagging covering everything in Chennai, this was another prevelant sight that Amy and I were not certain [...]

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Submission

By Ananda | Published: November 23, 2009

AKA “Quick, shhh! The Big-boss has just entered….” I was on the Tata-Dhan Academy vehicle the other day (or, as they like to call it, the “vee-kul”) and one of the passengers was the head of our organization. There was a notable hush over everyone in the van as we sat there waiting for the [...]

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Making an A6 booklet in OpenOffice.org the easy way

By Ananda | Published: November 19, 2009

Tutorial level: Elementary I recently had to create an A6 booklet for an event that was being hosted by DHAN Foundation/Tata-Dhan Academy. At first, I thought it would be a nightmare to design and print it—particularly because I only had one day to do the layout for a 60+ page book—but it turns out that [...]

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Am I inconsistent?

By Ananda | Published: November 15, 2009

I won’t pretend that I don’t have any illegal software installed on my computers, but here are a couple of scenarios that have occurred at work recently. A student came to me with his new laptop and asked me “Can I have a copy of Office 2007?” I thought for a minute and said, “Um, [...]

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A precursor? Probably. A promise? Perhaps.

By Ananda | Published: November 6, 2009

I was making a feeble attempt at cleaning out some of the clutter in my living room, and I quickly got distracted when I remembered that I had brought back a copy of the booklet that had accompanied the DWAB “One Final Episode in Our Attempts at Persistence” record. What should I do? Continue cleaning? [...]

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