One of my colleagues is working on a paper to his colleagues related to power, sample size, and navigating the thicket of trouble that surrounds those two things. We recently got together to walk through some of the issues, and I thought I would share some of the wildlife we observed along the way. If you just want the code and don't care about the harangue, see this gist on GitHub.
Posted on 20 January 2012.
This is an example (with a Bayesian spin) illustrating one way to compute a complicated expectation (that is, an integral) by the Monte Carlo method.
Posted on 24 August 2011.
