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Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) using preferenceFunction in ahp
Yesterday, I wrote about how to use gluc‘s new ahp package on a simple Tom-Dick-Harry one level decision making problem using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). One of the cool things about that package is that in addition to specifying the pairwise comparisons directly using Saaty’s scale (below, from https://kristalaace2014.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/w12_al_vendor-evaluation/)… …you can also describe each of the…
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Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with the ahp Package
On my December to-do list, I had “write an R package to make analytic hierarchy process (AHP) easier” — but fortunately gluc beat me to it, and saved me tons of time that I spent using AHP to do an actual research problem. First of all, thank you for writing the new ahp package! Next, I’d…
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Course Materials for Statistics (The Easier Way) With R
Are you an instructor with a Spring 2016 intro to statistics course coming up… and yet you haven’t started preparing? If so, I have a potential solution for you to consider. The materials (lecture slides, in-class practice problems in R, exams, syllabus) go with my book and are about 85% compiled, but good enough to get…
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A Discrete Time Markov Chain (DTMC) SIR Model in R
There are many different techniques that be used to model physical, social, economic, and conceptual systems. The purpose of this post is to show how the Kermack-McKendrick (1927) formulation of the SIR Model for studying disease epidemics (where S stands for Susceptible, I stands for Infected, and R for Recovered) can be easily implemented in R as a discrete…
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My Second (R) Shiny App: Sampling Distributions & CLT
I was so excited about my initial foray into Shiny development using jennybc‘s amazing googlesheets package that I stayed up half the night last night (again) working on my second Shiny app: a Shiny-fied version of the function I shared in March to do simulations illustrating sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem using many different…
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My First (R) Shiny App: An Annotated Tutorial
I’ve been meaning to learn Shiny for 2 years now… and thanks to a fortuitous email from @ImADataGuy this morning and a burst of wild coding energy about 5 hours ago, I am happy to report that I have completely fallen in love again. The purpose of this post is to share how I got…
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If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? A Retrospective
June 24, 1980 is kind of like July 4, 1776 for quality management… that’s the pivotal day that NBC News aired its one hour and 16 minute documentary called “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” introducing W. Edwards Deming and his methods to the American public. The video has been unavailable for years, but as of 2018, it’s posted on YouTube.…
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