Let me introduce myself briefly. My name is Jinny and I am a master student in the department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University. I am interested in Bayesian statistics and I want to share my problems, findings and knowledge with you. This blog is somewhat informal in a way that I just want to explore some stuff related to statistics. So, please correct me or comment if you find some mistakes or concerns.
The reason why I am writing this blog is because I want to improve my writing skill and want to keep my works somewhere that I can later easily access. Also, I want to share my problems and findings with people who are interested in the statistical field. It is always good to have some positive or negative feedback.
I have some background in computer science because I took some courses in Python and Java but I should say that I am not good at programming. However, I need to know some basic programming skill for my career. Statistics is highly related to computers recently because computer power is improving. As a result, we can now collect millions of data everyday. In statistics, we use the programming language R and SAS mostly. I heavily use R rather than SAS. I feel SAS is like a black box or canned product and I am not comfortable using it. But don't get me wrong. In some situations, using SAS rather than R saves me time.
I learnt R myself. I did a research assistance project about the average weight of BC pink salmon using MCMC. I built the MCMC code in R and learnt a lot of the structure and syntax of the programming language R. It is a pain in the ass that R does not have a debugger so it is not very clear when there is an error in the program. But again, it is very flexible to write code so you can figure out or rewrite it.
I hope that this blog is a tool for communicating different ideas of the problems that I have!
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