Monthly Archives: August 2009
OpenOffice advanced fill down
When people come to me for statistical advise, they often bring Excel files containing data like the following, where values are only written down when they change. But often it is required for further analysis that each row is completely … Continue reading
Detexify
A useful link today: Detexify2 – LaTeX symbol classifier And don’t forget to take a look at Detexify explained. I love this tool! It’s useful and also really fun to train.
Random Correlation Matrices
Some time ago one of my colleagues with a new method for evaluating the cumulative distribution function of a multivariate normal distribution wanted to compare the speed of his method with that of randomized quasi-Monte Carlo methods. While we were … Continue reading