The SIR model is an extremely simple model of an infectious disease in a population that breaks the population into three groups: susceptibles, infecteds, and recovereds. I was having issues getting matplotlib running, so I ported the code in Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals from Python to R.
2010-03-20 3:27 pm
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Recently, I was looking for “best practices” for getting data from MySQL to a numpy array. Thanks to Tim Hochberg on the numpy mailing list, we get the following as the apparently fastest way to bridge the DB-numpy gap:
2010-03-12 3:34 pm
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JAGS is essentially a cross-platform, command-line WinBUGS replacement. What does that mean? You can do Bayesian analysis natively on Linux and Mac OS X.
2010-03-08 3:00 pm
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If you compiled the xdebug module and see the following in your log file:
2010-02-12 2:22 pm
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If you don’t want OS X mucking up your Git repo with DS_Store files, you can set up a global ignore file. As per freshsauce, you simply execute the following two commands:


