Message-ID: <f8e6ff050903080749l36fb980cl71d5769fa320f4e0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-03-08T14:49:54Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: popular R packages
In-Reply-To: <gp045v$te5$1@ger.gmane.org>
> More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads can
> be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for package
> download have a very wide range from curiosity ("what's this ?"), fun
> (think "fortunes"...), to vital need tthink lme4 if/when a consensus on
> denominator DFs can be reached :-)...). What can you infer in good faith
> from such a mess ?
So when we have messy data with measurement error, we should just give
up? Doesn't sound very statistical! ;)
Hadley
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