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Useful tools in (almost) every day's statistician's life
Welcome to my Bayesian statistics homepage. I am a programming statistician
and I have been working with Dr Lawrence Joseph in a Bayesian framework since 1994.
To fill the miscellaneous tasks I have to do in my regular work, I mainly use
SAS,
R,
WinBUGS and
Perl.
Over the years, I have developed several tools, programs and functions to make my life easier: I thought I would share some of them with you, as they are likely to be useful to a Bayesian audience.
WinBUGS tools
%mds2wb A SAS macro to save multi-dimensional structures to WinBUGS list files. WriteWinBUGSScript A program to facilitate the writing of WinBUGS scripts. RunWinBUGSScript A program to facilitate the running of WinBUGS scripts. WinBUGSlogs2HtmlSummary A program to summarize the node statistics for each node in a series of WinBUGS log text files. wb.stats An R function to read node statistics from a WinBUGS text output file. R functions
aickin.alpha A function to compute Aickin Alpha's agreement coefficient. bic.process A function to process bic.glm and bic.surv outputs. combine.lists A function to combine/append two lists, with special attention to dimensions present in both. dbind A function to bind two matrices diagonally. forest.plot.or A function to draw a forest plot. RSimulationHelper A program to optimize R simulations by using multiple processors simultaneously (parallel computing). wb.stats A function to read node statistics from a WinBUGS text output file. beta.parms.from.quantiles A function to compute Beta distribution parameters fitting specified quantiles and cumulative probabilities. gamma.parms.from.quantiles A function to compute Gamma distribution parameters fitting specified quantiles and cumulative probabilities. %AickinAlpha A macro to compute Aickin Alpha's agreement coefficient. %BICOrdinalLogistic A macro to compute Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) in Ordinal Logistic Regression Models. %BICSurvTimeDependent A macro to compute Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) in Survival Models when one or more of the independent variables is (are) time-dependent. %DatesDesc A macro to compute dates variables descriptive statistics. %mds2wb A macro to save multi-dimensional structures to WinBUGS list files. %MeanOf A macro to compute the arithmetic mean of several variables in proc sql. %MultiTranspose A macro to transpose multiple variables in a SAS data set within a single macro call. %ProportionsDiffCIsNewcombe A macro to compute confidence interval(s) for difference between independent proportions. %VennDiagram A macro to plot 3-way Venn diagrams. and more... Miscellaneous tools
FieldGoal A program for extracting a field (or column) from a text file. Loop A Perl program to repeat text (or code) — with slight modifications — a large number of times. Perl programming
Most of the WinBUGS tools presented on this site and most of the Bayesian software Lawrence Joseph and I have developed are Perl-driven. Perl is a powerful and yet easy-to-learn programming language that can prove very useful to statisticians. Indeed, aside from its use in the (relatively) elaborated programs cited above, I use it almost daily for
Read my invitation to Perl, and you be the judge! |