Major League Baseball Birth Months
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the...
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(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In a previous post I showed that the data from www.baseball-reference.com support Malcolm Gladwell’s...
View ArticleBirth Month by Gender
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Based on some feedback to a previous post I normalised the birth counts by the (average) number of...
View ArticleEscalating Life Expectancy
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I’ve added mortality data to the lifespan package. A result that immediately emerges from these data...
View ArticleLife Expectancy by Country
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I was rather inspired by this plot on Wikipedia’s List of Countries by Life Expectancy. Shouldn’t be...
View ArticleMortality by Year and Age
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Taking another look at the data from the lifespan package. Plot below shows the evolution of...
View ArticleCalculating Pi using Buffon’s Needle
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I put together this example to illustrate some general R programming principles for my Data Science...
View ArticleBuilding a Life Table
(This article was first published on R – Exegetic Analytics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) After writing my previous post, Mortality by Year and Age, I’ve become progressively more interested...
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