Presentations

The abstracts of the useR! 2006 presentations are linked individually below or available in a single pdf file.

For time and location of the presentations, see the conference program.

Claudio Agostinelli	Robust Estimation for Circular Data using R	[abstract]	[slides]
Micah Altman, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald	R Modules for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing, Perturb package	[abstract]	[slides]
M. Rui Alves and M. Beatriz Oliveira	R algorithms for the calculation of markers to be used in the construction of predictive and interpolative biplot axes in routine multivariate analyses.	[abstract]	[slides]
Pedro Andrade Neto and Paulo Justinano Junior	aRT: R-TerraLib API	[abstract]	[slides]
Thomas Baier, Richard Heiberger, Erich Neuwirth and Wilfried Grossmann	Using R for teaching statistics to nonmajors: Comparing experiences of two different approaches	[abstract]	[slides]
Andreas Baierl and Andreas Futschik	Implementation of robust methods for locating quantitative trait loci in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Pierre-Alois Beitinger, Romain Beitinger, Stephany Fulda and Thomas-Christian Wetter	R in clinical practice - summarizing pharmacological data	[abstract]	[slides]
Axel Benner	Statistical Learning for Analyzing Functional Genomic Data	[abstract]	[slides]
Harald Binder	Comparison of approaches for fitting generalized additive models	[abstract]	[slides]
Gordon Blunt	Using Grid Graphics to produce linked micromap plots of large financial datasets	[abstract]	[slides]
Jake Bowers and Ben Hansen	The ritools package: Tools for Exact and Randomization Inference	[abstract]	[slides]
Adrian Bowman and Ewan Crawford	rpanel: simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package	[abstract]	[slides]
Alessandra R. Brazzale	Applied Asymptotics in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Göran Broström	A fixed effects approach to GLMs with clustered data	[abstract]	[slides]
Jan Budczies and Joachim Grün	oligoExpress - exploiting probe level information in Affymetrix GeneChip expression data	[abstract]	[slides]
Patrick Burns	Using R to Evaluate Trading Strategies	[abstract]	[slides]
Lucas Julian Carbonaro	Studies on financial time series analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Nick Carriero, J. Lai, Martin Schultz, S. Weston and Greg Warnes	Parallel Computing in R using NetWorkSpaces	[abstract]	[slides]
John Chambers	A History of S and R (with some questions for the future)	[abstract]	[slides]
Christine Choirat, Paolo Paruolo and Raffaello Seri	GEAR: GNU Econometric Analysis with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Christine Choirat and Raffaello Seri	Computing Weighted Chi-square Distributions and Related Quantities	[abstract]
Clara Cordeiro, Alexandra Machás and Manuela Neves	Missing Data, PLS and Bootstrap: A Magical Recipe?	[abstract]	[slides]
Yves Croissant	plm: linear models for panel data	[abstract]	[slides]
Peter Dalgaard	Repeated measures tools for multivariate linear models	[abstract]	[slides]
Daniel Doktor	Spatial and statistical modelling of phenological data	[abstract]	[slides]
David Lindelöf	Integrating R in an advanced building control system	[abstract]	[slides]
Marcello D'Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu	Some experiments on statistical matching in the R environment	[abstract]	[slides]
Jan de Leeuw	R in Psychometrics and Psychometrics in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Joris De Wolf, Koen Bruynseels, Rindert Peerbolte and Willem Broekbaert	The use of R as part of a large-scale information management and decision system	[abstract]	[slides]
Ramon Díaz-Uriarte, Andres Cañada, Edward Morrissey and Oscar Rueda	Asterias: an example of using R in a web-based bioinformatics suite of tools	[abstract]	[slides]
Jan Dienstbier and Jan Picek	Regression rank-scores tests in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Gemechis Dilba, Frank Schaarschmidt and Ludwig A. Hothorn	A Package for Inference about Ratios of Normal Means	[abstract]	[slides]
Zubin Dowlaty, Dean Mao and Simon Urbanek	Enterprise Automatons with R	[abstract]	[slides]
A. Pedro Duarte Silva, Jorge Cadima, Manuel Minhoto and Jorge Orestes Cerdeira	Subselect0.99: Selecting variable subsets in multivariate linear models	[abstract]	[slides]
Mark Dunning, Natalie Thorne, Mike Smith and Simon Tavaré	Using R for the Analysis of BeadArray Microarray Experiments	[abstract]	[slides]
Rudolf Dutter	Data Analysis System with Graphical Interface	[abstract]	[slides]
Dirk Eddelbuettel	Use R fifteen different ways: R front-ends in Quantian	[abstract]	[slides]
Martin Elff, Thomas Gschwend and Ron Johnston	How Much Can Be Inferred From Almost Nothing?	[abstract]	[slides]
John Emerson, Walton Green, Avi Feller and John Hartigan	SparcMats and Generalized Pairs Plots	[abstract]	[slides]
Brian Everitt	Cluster Analysis: Past, Present and Future	[abstract]	[slides]
Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni	ZipfR: Working with words and other rare events in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Robert Ferstl	Term structure and credit spread estimation with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Peter Filzmoser	Outlier Detection with Application to Geochemistry	[abstract]	[slides]
Peter Filzmoser and Heinrich Fritz	Robust Principal Component Analysis by Projection Pursuit	[abstract]	[slides]
John Fox and Sanford Weisberg	UseR! for Teaching	[abstract]	[slides]
Romain Francois and Florent Langrognet	Double Cross Validation for Model Based Classification	[abstract]	[slides]
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Christoph Pamminger	Capturing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Austrian Labor Market Using Finite Mixtures of Markov Chain Models	[abstract]	[slides]
Mario Gellrich, Rudolf Gubler, Andreas Papritz and Andreas Schönborn	SimSurvey - an R-based E-learning tool for geo-statistical analyses	[abstract]	[slides]
Vincent Goulet	Introduction to S programming: a teaching experience and a manual	[abstract]	[slides]
Alexander Gribov	Interactive Glyph Analysis with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Philippe Grosjean	Collaborative writing of R documentation using a Wiki	[abstract]	[slides]
Philippe Grosjean, Richard Hillary, Ernesto Jardim, Laurie Kell, Iago Mosqueira, Jan Jaap Poos, Robert Scott and Hunter S. Thompson	Fisheries modelling in R: the FLR (Fisheries Library in R) project	[abstract]	[slides]
Ben B. Hansen	The Optmatch Package: Flexible, Optimal Matching for Observational Studies	[abstract]	[slides]
Frank Harrell	Statistical Principles to Live By	[abstract]	[slides]
Justin Harrington and Matias Salibian-Barrera	Adventures in High Performance Computing and R: Going Parallel	[abstract]	[slides]
Trevor Hastie	Data Mining in R: Path Algorithms	[abstract]	[slides]
Reinhold Hatzinger and Patrick Mair	eRm - extended Rasch modelling	[abstract]	[slides]
Arne Henningsen and Jeff D. Hamann	systemfit: A Package to Estimate Simultaneous Equation Systems in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Arne Henningsen and Ott Toomet	Microeconomic Analysis with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Tim Hesterberg	Resampling Libraries in S-PLUS and R	[abstract]	[slides]
Tim Hesterberg and Chris Fraley	Least Angle Regression	[abstract]	[slides]
Heike Hofmann, Karen Kafadar and Hadley Wickham	Letter-Value Box Plots: Adjusting Box Plots for Large Data Sets	[abstract]	[slides]
Jeffrey Horner	Using R/Apache as the Statistical Engine for Web Applications	[abstract]	[slides]
Luis Huergo, Ralf Münnich and Michaela Saisana	Robustness assessment for composite indicators with R	[abstract]	[slides]
François Husson and Sébastien Lê	SensoMineR: a package for sensory data analysis with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Rob Hyndman	Automatic time series forecasting	[abstract]	[slides]
Stefano Iacus and Davide La Torre	Iterated function system and simulation of Brownian motion	[abstract]	[slides]
Stefano Iacus, Uwe Ligges and Simon Urbanek	R on Different Platforms: The useRs' Point of View	[abstract]	[slides]
Stefano Iacus and Giuseppe Porro	Matching and ATT Estimation via Random Recursive Partitioning	[abstract]	[slides]
Kosuke Imai, Gary King and Olivia Lau	A Unified User Interface for Single and Multi-Equation Models (aka "Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software")	[abstract]	[slides]
Thomas Jakobsen and Jeffrey Todd Lins	Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in R	[abstract]	[slides]
David James, John Chambers, Diane Lambert and Scott Vander Wiel	A Quick-and-Dirty Quantile Tracker	[abstract]	[slides]
Vojtech Janousek, Vojtech Erban and Colin Farrow	Using the R language for graphical presentation and interpretation of compositional data in mineralogy – introducing the package GCDkit-Mineral	[abstract]	[slides]
Markus Kalisch	pcalg: Estimating and visualizing high-dimensional dependence structures using the PC-algorithm	[abstract]	[slides]
Stephen Kaluzny	The S Package System	[abstract]	[slides]
Juha Karvanen	Visualizing covariates in proportional hazards model using R	[abstract]	[slides]
Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis	Applied Econometrics with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Jussi Klemelä	Visualization of multivariate functions, sets, and data with package ``denpro''	[abstract]	[slides]
Sigbert Klinke, Sibylle Schmerbach and Olga Troitschanskaia	Integration of R into Wikis	[abstract]	[slides]
Roger Koenker	Parametric link functions for binary response models: A Fisherian Holiday	[abstract]	[slides]
Andrea Konnert	LabNetAnalysis - An instrument for the analysis of data from laboratory networks based on RExcel	[abstract]	[slides]
Katarzyna Kopczewska	Geographical benefits in socio-economics development in post-socialist countries	[abstract]	[slides]
Eberhard Korsching, Walter Nadler and Horst Bürger	Cancer research - R package to analyze genomic regulation and tumor pathways based on array data from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) experiments	[abstract]	[slides]
Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert G. Staudte	Calibrating the evidence in experiments with applications to meta-analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Luca La Rocca, Jens Henrik Badsberg and Claus Dethlefsen	The giRaph package for graph representation in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Olivia Lau, Ryan Moore and Michael Kellermann	Ecological Inference and Higher Dimension Data Management	[abstract]	[slides]
T. Laurent, A. Ruiz-Gazen, and C. Thomas-Agnan	GEOXP: An R package for interactive exploratory spatial data analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Michael Lawrence and Hadley Wickham	Rggobi2 - Bringing R and GGobi Closer	[abstract]	[slides]
Javier López-de-Lacalle	The uroot and partsm R-Packages: Some Functionalities for Time Series Analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Tim F. Liao	Using R as a Wrapper in Simulation Studies	[abstract]	[slides]
Jeffrey Lins and Thomas Jakobsen	Markov Decision Processes, Dynamic Programming, and Reinforcement Learning in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Gunther Maier	Simple-R - A Windows-based interface to R for basic statistics	[abstract]	[slides]
Massimiliano Mascherini	MASTINO: a suite of R functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data.	[abstract]	[slides]
Geoffrey Matthews	Four Dimensional Barycentric Plots in 3D	[abstract]	[slides]
Geoffrey Matthews and Robin Matthews	Riffle: an R Package for Nonmetric Clustering	[abstract]	[slides]
Martin Mächler and Andreas Ruckstuhl	Robust Statistics Collaborative Package Development: 'robustbase'	[abstract]	[slides]
Giulio Mignola and Roberto Ugoccioni	Statistical Approach to Operational Risk Management	[abstract]	[slides]
Angelo Mineo and Alfredo Pontillo	Using R via PHP: R-php	[abstract]	[slides]
Ivan Mizera	Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis Using Halfspace Depth	[abstract]	[slides]
Marlene Müller	KernGPLM - A Package for Kernel-Based Fitting of Generalized Partial Linear and Additive Models	[abstract]	[slides]
Katharine M. Mullen and Ivo H. M. van Stokkum	TIMP: A package for parametric modeling of multiway spectroscopic	[abstract]	[slides]
Paul Murrell	Can R Draw Graphs?	[abstract]	[slides]
Tomoaki Nakatani and Timo Teräsvirta	Testing volatility interactions in a constant conditional correlation GARCH model	[abstract]	[slides]
Yuji Nakayama, Tomonori Ishigaki and Nagateru Araki	Estimating Consumer Demand for Hedonic Portfolio Products: A Bayesian Analysis using Scanner-Panel Data of Music CD Stores	[abstract]	[slides]
Stefan Neubauer and Georg Dorffner	Neural network algorithms and related models	[abstract]	[slides]
Pin Ng	RXL - A Free Excel Add-in for Introductory Business Statistics	[abstract]	[slides]
Keiji Osaki	Spatial characteristics of vegetation index map in urban area derived by variogram analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Giovanni Petris	Bayesian analysis of Dynamic Linear Models in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke and Louis Kates	Population ecology modelling with R: a comparison of object oriented approaches	[abstract]	[slides]
Rafael Pino Mejías and María Dolores Cubiles de la Vega	Teaching the Theory of Information and Coding with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Martyn Plummer	Bayesian Modeling in R with JAGS	[abstract]	[slides]
Jim Porzak	Data Profiling with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Christophe Pouzat, Andrea Ridolfi and Pascal Viot	Spike Sorting with R and GGobi	[abstract]	[slides]
Kevin Quinn and Andrew Martin	Applied Bayesian Inference in R using MCMCpack	[abstract]	[slides]
Jeff Racine	np - A Package for Nonparametric Kernel Smoothing with Mixed Datatypes	[abstract]	[slides]
Lisbeth Riis and Mikkel Grum	Using R to Reduce Pesticide Usage in the Horticultural Industry	[abstract]	[slides]
Brian D. Ripley	Does R speak your language?	[abstract]	[slides]
Peter Rossi	Bayesian Statistics with Marketing Data in R	[abstract]	[slides]
Peter Ruckdeschel and Bernhard Spangl	A package on Robust Kalman filtering	[abstract]	[slides]
Oscar Rueda and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte	RJaCGH, a package for analyisis of CGH arrays with Reversible Jump MCMC	[abstract]	[slides]
Eduardo San Miguel	3D Semantic Knowledge Retrieval	[abstract]	[slides]
Seisho Sato	Web Decomp and E-Decomp - Time Series Analysis using R	[abstract]	[slides]
Benjamin Saussen, Marc Kirchner, Judith A. J. Steen and Fred A. Hamprecht	The rpm package: aligning LC/MS mass spectra with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Harald Schmidbauer and Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu	mgarch: A package for the analysis of multivariate GARCH models	[abstract]	[slides]
Ralf Seger and Antony Unwin	Managing Large Sets Of Models	[abstract]	[slides]
Ching-Fan Sheu and Cheng-Te Chen	Turing Output of IRT Data Analysis into Graphs with R	[abstract]	[slides]
Tom Short and Philippe Grosjean	Online Applications with Rpad	[abstract]	[slides]
Mike Smith, John Marioni, Natalie Thorne and Simon Tavaré	snapCGH (segmentation, normalisation and processing of arrayCGH data) and methods for combining with gene expression information	[abstract]	[slides]
Norbert Solymosi, Andrea Harnos, Jenő Reiczigel and Ferenc Speiser	RpostGIS an R-library for using PostGIS spatial structures and functions	[abstract]	[slides]
Soeren Sonnenburg, Fabio De Bona and Gunnar Raetsch	SHOGUN - A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox	[abstract]	[slides]
Hutcha Sriplung, Edward McNeil, Apiradee Lim and Naratip Junsakul	R-ICE - A Modular R GUI	[abstract]	[slides]
Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Popi Akantziliotou	The generalized additive model for location, scale and shape	[abstract]	[slides]
Carolin Strobl, Achim Zeileis, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Torsten Hothorn	Variable Selection Bias in Classification Trees and Ensemble Methods	[abstract]	[slides]
Yu-Sung Su	Remittances and Political Liberalization	[abstract]	[slides]
Matthias Templ and Peter Filzmoser	Stability of Cluster Analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek	Extending interactive statistical graphics	[abstract]	[slides]
Andrew Thomas	Extending BRugs	[abstract]	[slides]
Gregoire R. Thomas, Sven Degroeve, Luc Krols and Koen Kas	Biomarker detection in LC-MALDI mass spectrometry proteomic profiles using R	[abstract]
Susan Thomas and Shobhana Vyas	Bringing transparency to commodity markets in India: A real-world mission-critical deployment of R	[abstract]	[slides]
Valentin Todorov	Robust Location and Scatter Estimators for Multivariate Analysis	[abstract]	[slides]
Shusaku Tsumoto and Yuko Tsumoto	Construction of Statistical Models for Hospital Management	[abstract]	[slides]
Regina Tüchler and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter	Bayesian Covariance Selection in Hierarchical Linear Mixed Models	[abstract]	[slides]
Heather Turner and David Firth	gnm: a Package for Generalized Nonlinear Models	[abstract]	[slides]
Svetlana Unkuri	Automated Lag Order Selection and Forecasting in VAR modeling	[abstract]	[slides]
Zdenek Valenta	Estimating survival from Gray’s flexible model	[abstract]	[slides]
Ravi Varadhan, Christophe Roland and Hormuzd Katki	Accelerating Any EM Algorithm Without Sacrificing Simplicity and Stability	[abstract]	[slides]
Pascale Voirin, Omar Abou Khaled and Tadeusz Senn	R as integrated engine in blended learning environment	[abstract]	[slides]
Gregory Warnes, Max Kuhn and Jim Rogers	Open Source Software in Pharmaceutical Research	[abstract]	[slides]
Gregory Warnes, Ross Lazarus, Scott Chasalow and Scott Henderson	The R Genetics Project: `Bioconductor' for Genetics	[abstract]	[slides]
Ron Wehrens, Egon Willighagen, Willem Melssen and Lutgarde Buydens	Supervised Self-Organising Maps	[abstract]	[slides]
Tobias Wichtrey, Alexander Gouberman, Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek	iPlots 2.0	[abstract]	[slides]
Hadley Wickham	An implementation of the grammar of graphics in R: ggplot	[abstract]	[slides]
Douglas Wood, David Chang, Solomon Henry and Balasubramanian Narasimhan	Using R as a web service	[abstract]	[slides]
Achim Zeileis and Giovanni Millo	A framework for heteroskedasticity-robust specification and misspecification testing functions for linear models in R	[abstract]	[slides]

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