Amazon associates links (warnin’)

As in previous years, let me warn unwary readers that the links to Amazon.com and Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to earn me a monetary gain [from 4% to 7%] if a purchase is made in the 24 hours following the entry on Amazon through this link, thanks to the “Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com/fr“. As with last year, most of the items purchased through the links and contributing to my bookoholic addiction are rather unrelated with the purpose of the ‘Og, but, as already mentioned , anything can happen within 24 hours! Here are the weirdest ones:

• Toy Vault 12″ Cthulhu Plush Toy and Pokemon Pillow
• Stewart’s Pro-Treat 21 ounce Tub Freeze Dried Dog Treats, Beef Liver
• ten copies of Hp Compaq Evo N610v Ac Adapter 0mAh
• Philosophy Purity Made Simple One-Step Facial Cleanser
• Nile Spice Lentil Soup
• ten copies of Donald in Mathmagic Land

plus of course the books I actually reviewed along the past months, positively or negatively… Like seven copies of Error and Inference. And a dozen of R for dummies. And many other books on Bayesian statistics and R programming. Thanks!

numbers

Last week, the ‘Og reached 2000 posts, 4000 comments, and 600,000 views. These are the most popular entries

In{s}a(ne)!!	8,277
“simply start over and build something better”	7,069
George Casella	5,757
Julien on R shortcomings	3,226
Sudoku via simulated annealing	2,995
#2 blog for the statistics geek?!	2,676
Bayesian p-values	2,395
Solution manual to Bayesian Core on-line	2,111
Of black swans and bleak prospects	2,009
Solution manual for Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R	1,996
Parallel processing of independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithms	1,862
Bayes’ Theorem	1,721
Bayes on the Beach 2010 [2]	1,718
Do we need an integrated Bayesian/likelihood inference?	1,585
Coincidence in lotteries	1,486
Julian Besag 1945-2010	1,407

As noted earlier this year, the posts on the future of R remain the top visited posts. Sadly and comfortingly, the entry I wrote for mourning George passing away was the most visited this year. Bayes on the Beach 2010 [2] gets traffic for the wrong reason, simply for mentioning Surfers’ Paradise… As a coincidence, I also reached the 4000 level on Stack Exchange – Cross Validation, but this is so completely anecdotal…

>500,000 (views)

On principle, by the time this post appears (prediction from the 21^st!), the ‘Og will have accumulated more than 500,000 views all-time since its very first post. Thank you, readers!

the ‘Og on Okp’s phone

the ‘Og from Bina’s iPad