
|  | Presentations | 
The abstracts of the useR! 2006 presentations are linked individually below or available in a single pdf file.
For time and location of the presentations, see the conference program.
| Claudio Agostinelli | Robust Estimation for Circular Data using R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Micah Altman, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald | R Modules for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing, Perturb package | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| M. Rui Alves and M. Beatriz Oliveira | R algorithms for the calculation of markers to be used in the construction of predictive and interpolative biplot axes in routine multivariate analyses. | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Pedro Andrade Neto and Paulo Justinano Junior | aRT: R-TerraLib API | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Thomas Baier, Richard Heiberger, Erich Neuwirth and Wilfried Grossmann | Using R for teaching statistics to nonmajors: Comparing experiences of two different approaches | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Andreas Baierl and Andreas Futschik | Implementation of robust methods for locating quantitative trait loci in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Pierre-Alois Beitinger, Romain Beitinger, Stephany Fulda and Thomas-Christian Wetter | R in clinical practice - summarizing pharmacological data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Axel Benner | Statistical Learning for Analyzing Functional Genomic Data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Harald Binder | Comparison of approaches for fitting generalized additive models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gordon Blunt | Using Grid Graphics to produce linked micromap plots of large financial datasets | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jake Bowers and Ben Hansen | The ritools package: Tools for Exact and Randomization Inference | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Adrian Bowman and Ewan Crawford | rpanel: simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Alessandra R. Brazzale | Applied Asymptotics in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Göran Broström | A fixed effects approach to GLMs with clustered data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jan Budczies and Joachim Grün | oligoExpress - exploiting probe level information in Affymetrix GeneChip expression data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Patrick Burns | Using R to Evaluate Trading Strategies | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Lucas Julian Carbonaro | Studies on financial time series analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Nick Carriero, J. Lai, Martin Schultz, S. Weston and Greg Warnes | Parallel Computing in R using NetWorkSpaces | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| John Chambers | A History of S and R (with some questions for the future) | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Christine Choirat, Paolo Paruolo and Raffaello Seri | GEAR: GNU Econometric Analysis with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Christine Choirat and Raffaello Seri | Computing Weighted Chi-square Distributions and Related Quantities | [abstract] | |
| Clara Cordeiro, Alexandra Machás and Manuela Neves | Missing Data, PLS and Bootstrap: A Magical Recipe? | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Yves Croissant | plm: linear models for panel data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Peter Dalgaard | Repeated measures tools for multivariate linear models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Daniel Doktor | Spatial and statistical modelling of phenological data | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| David Lindelöf | Integrating R in an advanced building control system | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Marcello D'Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu | Some experiments on statistical matching in the R environment | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jan de Leeuw | R in Psychometrics and Psychometrics in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Joris De Wolf, Koen Bruynseels, Rindert Peerbolte and Willem Broekbaert | The use of R as part of a large-scale information management and decision system | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ramon Díaz-Uriarte, Andres Cañada, Edward Morrissey and Oscar Rueda | Asterias: an example of using R in a web-based bioinformatics suite of tools | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jan Dienstbier and Jan Picek | Regression rank-scores tests in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gemechis Dilba, Frank Schaarschmidt and Ludwig A. Hothorn | A Package for Inference about Ratios of Normal Means | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Zubin Dowlaty, Dean Mao and Simon Urbanek | Enterprise Automatons with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| A. Pedro Duarte Silva, Jorge Cadima, Manuel Minhoto and Jorge Orestes Cerdeira | Subselect0.99: Selecting variable subsets in multivariate linear models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Mark Dunning, Natalie Thorne, Mike Smith and Simon Tavaré | Using R for the Analysis of BeadArray Microarray Experiments | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Rudolf Dutter | Data Analysis System with Graphical Interface | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Dirk Eddelbuettel | Use R fifteen different ways: R front-ends in Quantian | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Martin Elff, Thomas Gschwend and Ron Johnston | How Much Can Be Inferred From Almost Nothing? | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| John Emerson, Walton Green, Avi Feller and John Hartigan | SparcMats and Generalized Pairs Plots | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Brian Everitt | Cluster Analysis: Past, Present and Future | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni | ZipfR: Working with words and other rare events in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Robert Ferstl | Term structure and credit spread estimation with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Peter Filzmoser | Outlier Detection with Application to Geochemistry | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Peter Filzmoser and Heinrich Fritz | Robust Principal Component Analysis by Projection Pursuit | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| John Fox and Sanford Weisberg | UseR! for Teaching | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Romain Francois and Florent Langrognet | Double Cross Validation for Model Based Classification | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Christoph Pamminger | Capturing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Austrian Labor Market Using Finite Mixtures of Markov Chain Models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Mario Gellrich, Rudolf Gubler, Andreas Papritz and Andreas Schönborn | SimSurvey - an R-based E-learning tool for geo-statistical analyses | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Vincent Goulet | Introduction to S programming: a teaching experience and a manual | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Alexander Gribov | Interactive Glyph Analysis with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Philippe Grosjean | Collaborative writing of R documentation using a Wiki | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Philippe Grosjean, Richard Hillary, Ernesto Jardim, Laurie Kell, Iago Mosqueira, Jan Jaap Poos, Robert Scott and Hunter S. Thompson | Fisheries modelling in R: the FLR (Fisheries Library in R) project | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ben B. Hansen | The Optmatch Package: Flexible, Optimal Matching for Observational Studies | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Frank Harrell | Statistical Principles to Live By | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Justin Harrington and Matias Salibian-Barrera | Adventures in High Performance Computing and R: Going Parallel | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Trevor Hastie | Data Mining in R: Path Algorithms | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Reinhold Hatzinger and Patrick Mair | eRm - extended Rasch modelling | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Arne Henningsen and Jeff D. Hamann | systemfit: A Package to Estimate Simultaneous Equation Systems in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Arne Henningsen and Ott Toomet | Microeconomic Analysis with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tim Hesterberg | Resampling Libraries in S-PLUS and R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tim Hesterberg and Chris Fraley | Least Angle Regression | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Heike Hofmann, Karen Kafadar and Hadley Wickham | Letter-Value Box Plots: Adjusting Box Plots for Large Data Sets | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jeffrey Horner | Using R/Apache as the Statistical Engine for Web Applications | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Luis Huergo, Ralf Münnich and Michaela Saisana | Robustness assessment for composite indicators with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| François Husson and Sébastien Lê | SensoMineR: a package for sensory data analysis with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Rob Hyndman | Automatic time series forecasting | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stefano Iacus and Davide La Torre | Iterated function system and simulation of Brownian motion | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stefano Iacus, Uwe Ligges and Simon Urbanek | R on Different Platforms: The useRs' Point of View | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stefano Iacus and Giuseppe Porro | Matching and ATT Estimation via Random Recursive Partitioning | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Kosuke Imai, Gary King and Olivia Lau | A Unified User Interface for Single and Multi-Equation Models (aka "Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software") | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Thomas Jakobsen and Jeffrey Todd Lins | Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| David James, John Chambers, Diane Lambert and Scott Vander Wiel | A Quick-and-Dirty Quantile Tracker | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Vojtech Janousek, Vojtech Erban and Colin Farrow | Using the R language for graphical presentation and interpretation of compositional data in mineralogy – introducing the package GCDkit-Mineral | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Markus Kalisch | pcalg: Estimating and visualizing high-dimensional dependence structures using the PC-algorithm | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stephen Kaluzny | The S Package System | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Juha Karvanen | Visualizing covariates in proportional hazards model using R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis | Applied Econometrics with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jussi Klemelä | Visualization of multivariate functions, sets, and data with package ``denpro'' | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Sigbert Klinke, Sibylle Schmerbach and Olga Troitschanskaia | Integration of R into Wikis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Roger Koenker | Parametric link functions for binary response models: A Fisherian Holiday | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Andrea Konnert | LabNetAnalysis - An instrument for the analysis of data from laboratory networks based on RExcel | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Katarzyna Kopczewska | Geographical benefits in socio-economics development in post-socialist countries | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Eberhard Korsching, Walter Nadler and Horst Bürger | Cancer research - R package to analyze genomic regulation and tumor pathways based on array data from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) experiments | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert G. Staudte | Calibrating the evidence in experiments with applications to meta-analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Luca La Rocca, Jens Henrik Badsberg and Claus Dethlefsen | The giRaph package for graph representation in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Olivia Lau, Ryan Moore and Michael Kellermann | Ecological Inference and Higher Dimension Data Management | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| T. Laurent, A. Ruiz-Gazen, and C. Thomas-Agnan | GEOXP: An R package for interactive exploratory spatial data analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Michael Lawrence and Hadley Wickham | Rggobi2 - Bringing R and GGobi Closer | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Javier López-de-Lacalle | The uroot and partsm R-Packages: Some Functionalities for Time Series Analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tim F. Liao | Using R as a Wrapper in Simulation Studies | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jeffrey Lins and Thomas Jakobsen | Markov Decision Processes, Dynamic Programming, and Reinforcement Learning in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gunther Maier | Simple-R - A Windows-based interface to R for basic statistics | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Massimiliano Mascherini | MASTINO: a suite of R functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data. | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Geoffrey Matthews | Four Dimensional Barycentric Plots in 3D | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Geoffrey Matthews and Robin Matthews | Riffle: an R Package for Nonmetric Clustering | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Martin Mächler and Andreas Ruckstuhl | Robust Statistics Collaborative Package Development: 'robustbase' | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Giulio Mignola and Roberto Ugoccioni | Statistical Approach to Operational Risk Management | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Angelo Mineo and Alfredo Pontillo | Using R via PHP: R-php | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ivan Mizera | Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis Using Halfspace Depth | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Marlene Müller | KernGPLM - A Package for Kernel-Based Fitting of Generalized Partial Linear and Additive Models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Katharine M. Mullen and Ivo H. M. van Stokkum | TIMP: A package for parametric modeling of multiway spectroscopic | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Paul Murrell | Can R Draw Graphs? | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tomoaki Nakatani and Timo Teräsvirta | Testing volatility interactions in a constant conditional correlation GARCH model | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Yuji Nakayama, Tomonori Ishigaki and Nagateru Araki | Estimating Consumer Demand for Hedonic Portfolio Products: A Bayesian Analysis using Scanner-Panel Data of Music CD Stores | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Stefan Neubauer and Georg Dorffner | Neural network algorithms and related models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Pin Ng | RXL - A Free Excel Add-in for Introductory Business Statistics | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Keiji Osaki | Spatial characteristics of vegetation index map in urban area derived by variogram analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Giovanni Petris | Bayesian analysis of Dynamic Linear Models in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke and Louis Kates | Population ecology modelling with R: a comparison of object oriented approaches | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Rafael Pino Mejías and María Dolores Cubiles de la Vega | Teaching the Theory of Information and Coding with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Martyn Plummer | Bayesian Modeling in R with JAGS | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jim Porzak | Data Profiling with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Christophe Pouzat, Andrea Ridolfi and Pascal Viot | Spike Sorting with R and GGobi | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Kevin Quinn and Andrew Martin | Applied Bayesian Inference in R using MCMCpack | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Jeff Racine | np - A Package for Nonparametric Kernel Smoothing with Mixed Datatypes | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Lisbeth Riis and Mikkel Grum | Using R to Reduce Pesticide Usage in the Horticultural Industry | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Brian D. Ripley | Does R speak your language? | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Peter Rossi | Bayesian Statistics with Marketing Data in R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Peter Ruckdeschel and Bernhard Spangl | A package on Robust Kalman filtering | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Oscar Rueda and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte | RJaCGH, a package for analyisis of CGH arrays with Reversible Jump MCMC | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Eduardo San Miguel | 3D Semantic Knowledge Retrieval | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Seisho Sato | Web Decomp and E-Decomp - Time Series Analysis using R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Benjamin Saussen, Marc Kirchner, Judith A. J. Steen and Fred A. Hamprecht | The rpm package: aligning LC/MS mass spectra with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Harald Schmidbauer and Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu | mgarch: A package for the analysis of multivariate GARCH models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ralf Seger and Antony Unwin | Managing Large Sets Of Models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ching-Fan Sheu and Cheng-Te Chen | Turing Output of IRT Data Analysis into Graphs with R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tom Short and Philippe Grosjean | Online Applications with Rpad | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Mike Smith, John Marioni, Natalie Thorne and Simon Tavaré | snapCGH (segmentation, normalisation and processing of arrayCGH data) and methods for combining with gene expression information | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Norbert Solymosi, Andrea Harnos, Jenő Reiczigel and Ferenc Speiser | RpostGIS an R-library for using PostGIS spatial structures and functions | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Soeren Sonnenburg, Fabio De Bona and Gunnar Raetsch | SHOGUN - A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Hutcha Sriplung, Edward McNeil, Apiradee Lim and Naratip Junsakul | R-ICE - A Modular R GUI | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Popi Akantziliotou | The generalized additive model for location, scale and shape | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Carolin Strobl, Achim Zeileis, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Torsten Hothorn | Variable Selection Bias in Classification Trees and Ensemble Methods | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Yu-Sung Su | Remittances and Political Liberalization | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Matthias Templ and Peter Filzmoser | Stability of Cluster Analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek | Extending interactive statistical graphics | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Andrew Thomas | Extending BRugs | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gregoire R. Thomas, Sven Degroeve, Luc Krols and Koen Kas | Biomarker detection in LC-MALDI mass spectrometry proteomic profiles using R | [abstract] | |
| Susan Thomas and Shobhana Vyas | Bringing transparency to commodity markets in India: A real-world mission-critical deployment of R | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Valentin Todorov | Robust Location and Scatter Estimators for Multivariate Analysis | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Shusaku Tsumoto and Yuko Tsumoto | Construction of Statistical Models for Hospital Management | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Regina Tüchler and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter | Bayesian Covariance Selection in Hierarchical Linear Mixed Models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Heather Turner and David Firth | gnm: a Package for Generalized Nonlinear Models | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Svetlana Unkuri | Automated Lag Order Selection and Forecasting in VAR modeling | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Zdenek Valenta | Estimating survival from Gray’s flexible model | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ravi Varadhan, Christophe Roland and Hormuzd Katki | Accelerating Any EM Algorithm Without Sacrificing Simplicity and Stability | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Pascale Voirin, Omar Abou Khaled and Tadeusz Senn | R as integrated engine in blended learning environment | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gregory Warnes, Max Kuhn and Jim Rogers | Open Source Software in Pharmaceutical Research | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Gregory Warnes, Ross Lazarus, Scott Chasalow and Scott Henderson | The R Genetics Project: `Bioconductor' for Genetics | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Ron Wehrens, Egon Willighagen, Willem Melssen and Lutgarde Buydens | Supervised Self-Organising Maps | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Tobias Wichtrey, Alexander Gouberman, Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek | iPlots 2.0 | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Hadley Wickham | An implementation of the grammar of graphics in R: ggplot | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Douglas Wood, David Chang, Solomon Henry and Balasubramanian Narasimhan | Using R as a web service | [abstract] | [slides] | 
| Achim Zeileis and Giovanni Millo | A framework for heteroskedasticity-robust specification and misspecification testing functions for linear models in R | [abstract] | [slides] |