The Elements of Statistical Learning

A complete PDF of this very good book:

Hastie et al. The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction‎. (2009) pp. 745

is available from the authors' web site here.

Humor: Large-scale science

"A BIG COMPUTER, A COMPLEX ALGORITHM AND A LONG TIME DOES NOT EQUAL SCIENCE."

ROBERT GENTLEMAN, SSC 2003, HALIFAX (JUNE 2003)

(From the One R Tip a Day blog http://onertipaday.blogspot.com/)


And should we add

"and a p-value of 10^-8"?

Humor: How to write a scientific paper

This article on "How to Write a Scientific Paper" is amusing.

HapMap BioMart interface

One can retrieve allele frequencies and genotype frequencies for all the populations in HapMap in a nice tabular format using their BioMart HapMart interface available here:

http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biomart/martview

This is a very nice interface, which is relatively easy to use.

The same interface also generates Perl code for the same query, which then could easily be reused in a program if needed.