Posts Tagged ‘ rbenchmark ’

Variable probability Bernoulli outcomes – Fast and Slow

November 1, 2012
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Variable probability Bernoulli outcomes – Fast and Slow

I am working on a project that requires the generation of Bernoulli outcomes. Typically, I would go about this using the built in sample() function like so: This works great and is fast, even for large n. Problem is, I want to generate each sample with its own unique probability. Seems straight forward enough, I

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microbenchmarking with R

April 28, 2012
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microbenchmarking with R

I love to benchmark.  Maybe I’m a bit weird but I love to bench  everything in R.  Recently I’ve had people raise accuracy challenges to the typical system.time and rbenchmark package approaches to benchmarking.  I saw Hadley Wickham promoting the … Continue reading →

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