Monthly Archives: January 2012
Parameterizing Negative Binomial distributions
The negative binomial distribution is cool. Sometimes I think that. Sometimes I think it is more trouble than it’s worth, a complicated mess. Today, both. Wikipedia and PyMC parameterize it differently, and it is a source of continuing confusion for … Continue reading
Filed under statistics
PyMC+Pandas: Poisson Regression Example
When I was gushing about the python data package pandas, commenter Rafael S. Calsaverini asked about combining it with PyMC, the python MCMC package that I usually gush about. I had a few minutes free and gave it a try. … Continue reading
Filed under MCMC, software engineering
My new favorite for pythonic data wrangling
I’ve written before about my search for the way to deal with data in python. It’s time to write again, though because I have a new favorite: pandas, the panel data package. There is copious, and growing documentation for pandas, … Continue reading
Filed under software engineering
