Archive for August, 2008
08-08-20
Tags:Computing Statstics I am using the "segmented" package by Vito M. R. Muggeo (2008, http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2008-1.pdf) to do some piecewise-linear regressions. Wanted to make a function but this won’t run. Looks like it’s — or I am — confusing objects in different scopes.
## need to load the package firstlibrary("segmented")
## define the segreg3 function################## This function […]
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08-08-18
Tags:Chinese Linguistics Chinese has shifted from a monosyllabic language to a mixture of mono- and bi-syllabic languages. The preferred phonological structure for new words is now bisyllabic. The on-going Beijing Olympics Games presents an unexpected opportunity to testify this.
伊辛巴耶娃 (in pinyin: yi-xin-ba-ye-wa or -va) is the official translation of Yelena Isinbayeva (Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева), […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1