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Kendall’s Tau and the CrossFit Games

Correlation of Results Correlation coefficients are a measure of agreement, and Kendall’s Tau is used to rank agreement of the order of items. An example of this could be seeing how closely different athletes are in ranking. Suppose Alice was … Continue reading

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What R taught me about Java

I was recently using glmnet to do some classification work.  It’s a great package and worked really well for me, but I kept getting some really frustrating errors: > Error in lognet(x, is.sparse, ix, jx, y, weights, offset, alpha, nobs, … Continue reading

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