Finally I got the first certified programme in the MICE industry. It is the Certified Exhibition Management offered by IAEE. I passed all 10 modules including destination marketing and venue management. There are some 40...Read more
PhD examination (a.k.a. Viva Voce) has been perceived as the decisive event for the successful of the candidate. However, I believe that there is not thing much to prepare if you have throughly know your thesis...Read more
Inspired by Mages's post on Accessing and plotting World bank data with R (using googleVis package), I created one visualising tourism receipts and international tourist arrivals of various countries since 1995. The data used are from the...Read more
26th June 2011 is the first day pairach.com launched. I found this website to disseminate my work to the wider audience in the hop that it will make more impacts. In this post I would like to review what...Read more
It's gutted that I could not attend useR! 2012 after having a great time at useR!2011 at Warwick.
However, a great active online community of useRs allows me to get lots of goods stuffs from the conference even though I...Read more
คู่มือวิเคราะห์สถิติและเศรษฐมิติประยุกต์ด้วยโปรแกรม R (ฉบับภาษาไทย)
ASER: Applied Statistics and Econometrics with R (English Version)
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Arguably, knitr (CRAN link) is the most outstanding R package of this year and its creator, Yihui Xie is the star of the useR! conference 2012. This is because the ease of use comparing to Sweave for...Read more
According to the post on FREE online R tutorials from universities, I have received many email suggesting more and more tutorials. However some tutorials are not hosted in an academic institutes, so I decided to...Read more
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As EURO 2012 (European Football Championship) will kick starts today (in seconds)!
Recently, there is a working paper from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck predicting the winner of the...Read more
Background
Last year Thailand faced the worst floods in their history. The World Bank (2011) reported that the 2011 Thailand floods were “The biggest damages and losses were in the manufacturing sector, with a total of...Read more
Free 100 Online tutorials for R programming, Statistics and GraphicsHere is a list of FREE R tutorials hosted in official website of universities around the world. The tutorials are listed in no particular order, actually...Read more
PhD study is mainly about how to do a research. It normally takes more than three years to complete the course. Many PhD candidates have withdrew or failed in the end. I found that on...Read more
At useR! 2011, I talked about using R (with packages sem, lavaan and OpenMx) for Structural Equation Modeling by comparing to other commercial software i.e., AMOS, Lisrel and Mplus.
In this study, I compare R and...Read more
Welcoming Prof. Disney, my PhD supervisor, back from his six month leave to USA with the Harry Boer award for the paper that was presented in EurOMA 2011 conference.
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The first thing I did when I started my PhD research is to review a literature to define 'Tourism Supply Chains'. Then I presented such a work in a PhD Network Conference “EXPLORING TOURISM III: ISSUES...Read more
Background
This research aims to find the image of Thailand as a tourist destination from the perspective of British and Australian tourists who ever visited Thailand as well as who have not. The research was initiated and supported...Read more
Just before I forgot the event, I'd like to share my experience in one of the most distinguish Operations Management in the world.
This year, the conference has set a new bar with highest number of...Read more