Cinnamon really works

Mint Linux's Cinnamon works rather well on my old laptop. It takes a bit longer to boot up to the desktop than Xfce, but once you get there, the user experience is rather good. In addition, it is very easy to use themes contributed by others (just put them into ~./theme folder).

Lcmm package example

Some latent class examples using the lcmm package.

JAGS resources

Very good resource list of using JAGS for Bayesian computing

New output processing package

The "rockchalk" package looks promising. I hope it can be as general as the "esttab" package for Stata.

A practical Bayesian book

Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists is a good practical Bayesian book. I find the sample code very useful. The simple example of forming predictions (p. 116) is straightforward and can be easily tailored to be used in different research situations.

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R and BUGS is another useful practical Bayesian book. My copy just arrived today. Can't wait to play with some of the examples there.

From bbitex to biblatex

This post is helpuful to get started.

Integrating Eclipse and Rcpp

Interesting ideas.

Sex ratio and malnutrition

One of my recent papers received some media attentions, including Nature and Science.

Here is a list of additional news coverage.

Generate predicted confidence intervals from logistic regression

using Stata.