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Visualizations for All Descendants of Mathias Boll and His Parents (and their ICWs)
Uses generic R code to display visualizations of a specific list of matches.
In this case that list was created by the following steps.
- Descendants of Mathia Boll and his parents with DNA kits in RootsMagic
- Add their ICWs to the list in DNAGedcom
v2 adds more user friendly configuration and network graph visualization.
Visualizations for ThruLines Descendants of Mathias Boll and His Ancestors (and their ICWs)
Uses generic R code to display visualizations of a specific list of matches.
In this case that list was created by the following steps.
- Create a list of ancestors of Mathia Boll in RootsMagic and add him to the list
- Add their ICWs to the list in DNAGedcom
Cluster ICW files (public version)
For discussion in the DNAGedcom Programmers Facebook group.
How Wet Is It This Year? A History of Santa Cruz Water Years.
Draft of article about Santa Cruz water years created for the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewards.
GEDmatch Multiple Match Analysis
This is an analysis of the matches between GEDmatch kits YX8532528, A627562, A781825, A389959, and M101606 and how those matches relate to the genealogical connections.
MCV vs. MPV Correlation
Look at the relationship of MCV and MPV blood test values. Primarily uses NHANES III data, but also provides a paper reference.
NHANES III Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) Investigation
Investigation of using RDW as a biomarker.
Proposed Application of Revici’s Potassium Analysis: Part I, The Theory
Article on Revici Potassium for Lynne August's Dr. Revici newsletter.
Selenium and Prostate Cancer
Revisiting the discussion in the PH207x Health in Numbers week 8 literature critique of selenium supplementation studies.
This is of special interest because of the Feb. 2014 media coverage emphasizing the negative consequences of selenium. See http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/qa/2008/selectqa
This media flurry was a reaction to the publication of Baseline Selenium Status and Effects of Selenium and Vitamin E Supplementation on Prostate Cancer Risk (A. R. Kristal et al. 2014)
NORTA Algorithm Examples
Based on http://blog.ouseful.info/2014/12/17/sketching-scatterplots-to-demonstrate-different-correlations/
RSM_project
See http://learnche.mcmaster.ca/rsm/ and https://class.coursera.org/experiments-001
NFL Database in R
Example of using the NFL database in R.
See https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame
These scrape NFL data using Python.
RepData_NOAA2
Peer Assessment 2 project for Coursera Reproducible Research class.
Nonlinear Models
Statistical Learning Chapter 7 examples
test
Example with ch7.Rmd