Python needs its CRAN

August 21, 2025 | Econometrics and Free Software

How is it that in the year 2025 of our Lord installing a Python package is still such a gamble? This post comes from someone that rarely uses Python, but consider the following: the rare times I need to use it, I’m often confronted to dep...
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Nonparametric serial interval estimation

August 17, 2025 | R on Stats and R

Motivation Epidemiological delays inform about the time between two well-defined events related to a disease. The serial interval (SI) of an infectious disease is defined as the time between symptom onset in a primary case (infector) and symptom onset in a secondary case (infectee). It is a widely used epidemiological ...
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The (non-)Ethics of Capitalism

August 15, 2025 | arthur charpentier

Back in 2018, there was a survey on Gallup, about honesty and ethical standards, per profession More than four in five Americans (84%) again rate the honesty and ethical standards of nurses as “very high” or “high,” earning them the top spot among a diverse list of professions for the 17th consecutive ...
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