Archive for April, 2013

Reading Assignment

Monday, April 29th, 2013

I was assigned to read the following three articles by Howard Wainer: Graphical Birth Announcements—VOL.10, NO.2, 1997 Reporting Test Results to Institutions and Nations–VOL.15, NO.2, 2002 Finding What Is Not There through the Unfortunate Binning of Results: The Mendel Effect—VOL.19, NO 1,2006 As required, I summarize the first two articles and make a presentation. The link is […]

MATH 6820 Week 15: ggplot2

Friday, April 19th, 2013

According to the requirement, I choose two graphs from my previous blogs and reconstruct them by ggplot2. The first one, a coplot of variables “reputation” and “a.grad.rate” in conditioning on Tiers, comes from the week13 color. The original graph is below: The panel at the top is the given panel, which is tier; the panels […]

MATH 6820 Week 14:Pop Charts

Friday, April 12th, 2013

On April 4, 1964, the top five songs on the Billboard Hot 100 were all Beatles songs. The title of these songs are : No. 1, “Can’t Buy Me Love” No. 2, “Twist and Shout” No. 3, “She Loves You” No. 4, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” No. 5, “Please Please Me” As you […]

MATH 6820 Week13: Color

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Part A: The data frame college.ratings in the LearnEDA package provides ratings of a group of national universities based on 2001 survey data. Based on the original data, I choose the variable “Reputation” and variable “a.grad.rate”, which represent “measure of academic reputation” and “percentage of freshmen who graduated within a six-year period”, respectively. The reason […]