I am teaching a class, Introduction to R (MEDB 5505). Here is the syllabus for Fall Semester 2017. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2017
PMean: Syllabus for Introduction to SPSS, Fall semester 2017
I am teaching a class, Introduction to SPSS (MEDB 5506). Here is the syllabus for Fall Semester 2017. Continue reading
PMean: Open source as a budgetary measure
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Like a lot of public universities, UMKC is having a lot of financial difficulty. They are asking for advice from faculty members on how to address this budget shortfall. Not being the bashful type, I suggested that we stop paying commercial software vendors and commercial journal publishers and rely instead on open source. Here’s the details of my letter. Continue reading
PMean: A quick summary of my research
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I might be giving a very brief (5 minute) overview of my research for students in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Here are some details of that work, with links if anyone wants to dig deeper. Continue reading
Recommended: Dryad Digital Repository
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I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. It is a repository for data sets associated with peer-reveiwed publications. I have only glanced at it briefly, but it looks fairly easy to use with a fair number of interesting data sets/publications. Continue reading
PMean: Conferences for learning R
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I heard about a new series of conferences for learning about R. I have not attended any of them, but they look interesting. Continue reading