## Saturday, March 03, 2012

### Cauchy and determinants: when life was simple

" In Cauchy's day, when life was simple and matrices were small, determinants played a major role in analytic geometry and other parts of mathematics."

Lay, p. 202 [Linear Algebra and its Applications, 3rd Edition (Update)]

## Saturday, February 04, 2012

### Alpha values

Recently seen quote on Gelman's blog:

“No scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas.”
(Ronald A. Fisher, 1956, p. 42)

## Thursday, January 26, 2012

### How to append R code in appendix using Sweave

In the statistics course I'm doing, the solutions to assignments have R code, but the instructor doesn't want to see them in the main text but rather in an appendix.  Here's apparently how to do that without copying and pasting the code into an appendix (I got this nifty example from here):

\begin{appendix}
\section{Appendix A}
\subsection{R session information}
<<SessionInforamtaion,echo=F,eval=T,results=tex>>=

toLatex(sessionInfo())
@

\subsection{The simulation's source code}

<>=

Stangle(file.path("Projectpath","RnwFile.Rnw"))

writeLines(SourceCode)

@
\end{appendix}