Author: Erik Gahner Larsen

I begyndelsen af 2020 havde de færeste nok forestillet sig, at det største emne på den offentlige dagsorden – og i vores daglige liv – ville blive coronavirussen (COVID-19). Min forventning er, at coronavirussen vil øge uligheden i samfundet — økonomisk, socialt, kulturelt og politisk. Dette ikke ved at der bliver gennemført radikale ændringer i […]

In the April issue of Journal of Research in Personality, we (Joseph A. Vitriol, Steven G. Ludeke and I) have an article titled Just as WEIRD? Personality traits and political attitudes among immigrant minorities. Here is the abstract: A large body of literature has examined how personality traits relate to political attitudes and behavior. However, […]

Simpsons paradoks kan forstås som et fænomen, hvor der er en korrelation mellem to variable i en bestemt retning, evt. en positiv korrelation, men som er produktet af korrelationer i en modsat retning inden for bestemte grupper. Figur 1 nedenfor viser dette illustreret med karakterer fra The Simpsons. Bemærk dog, at Simpsons paradoks er opkaldt […]

646. Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” 647. Top 15 R resources on Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus 648. Collection of analyses, packages, visualisations of COVID19 data in R 649. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States 650. How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial 651. Forecasting […]

I use ggplot2 every day. It is a great R package and the best tool available to make beautiful data visualisations. The logic of grammar of graphics makes it easy to learn as well as making it possible for you to gradually improve your plots. Luckily, there are a lot of resources available for the […]