Blog Posts – Amalan Mahendran

Welcome to my statistics related blog posts.

Number of subsamples, that is sampling

Blog

Subsampling

Big data

Analysing big data is computationally intensive and to resolve this scalable methods are developed, for example subsampling. Obtaining a subset of the big data based on a…

February 5, 2023

Tree of Binomial Distribution

Binomial

Blog

fitODBOD

The binomial distribution can be defined, using the binomial expansion

February 14, 2019

Benchmarking the mle and mle2 function

bbmle

fitODBOD

mle

mle2

R

NOTE : Below post is valid for Package version 1.4.0 and Before.

December 29, 2018

Benchmarking the maxLik function

BetaBinomial

fitODBOD

maxLik

NOTE : Below post is valid for Package version 1.4.0 and Before.

December 20, 2018

Benchmarking the optim function

fitODBOD

optim

R

NOTE : Below post is valid for Package version 1.4.0 and Before.

December 14, 2018

Benchmarking optimization functions in R

bbmle

Beta-Binomial

fitODBOD

maxLik

mle

mle2

nlm

nlminb

optim

ucminf

NOTE : Below post is valid for Package version 1.4.0 and Before.

December 4, 2018

Extract Presidential Election Data of 2015 from the Pdf file

SL Election

Presidential Election

Sri Lanka will face a presidential election by the end of this year, but in order to understand how people have voted so far in previous elections we need data. I was hoping…

Build Your Own Website or Blog Using R, RStudio and R Packages.

R

Website

Blog

R enthusiasts are focused on developing packages and websites to promote their profile and share their knowledge to the world. Recently released packages such as hugo…

January 28, 2019

Olympic : Rshiny Approach

Rshiny

R

Rshiny is very popular in the rstats community. The glamourous interface and functionality has helped for this level of popularity. In perspective of using an Rshiny App…

January 24, 2019

Developing an R package

fitODBOD

R

R package development is no longer as it was before 2010 because now most of the work can be done by just a simple mouse-click or with the use of a function. My intention of…

January 10, 2019

Build a New Package with Existing R packages

R

Package development is a sense of accomplishment for any statistical programmer who needs self satisfaction. I developed the R package fitODBOD for the purpose of fitting…

December 23, 2018

How To Find Your R package ?

R

How to find your R package is simply a blog post helping people to provide a list of websites where they can find R packages. These websites were useful for me while…

December 22, 2018