Bootstrap vs Standard Error Confidence Intervals

February 10, 2025 | R on Jason Bryer

During a recent class a student asked whether bootstrap confidence intervals were more robust than confidence intervals estimated using the standard error (i.e. \(SE = \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}\)). In order to answer this question I wrote a function to simulate taking a bunch of random samples from a population, ... [Read more...]

Kerning and Kerning in a Widening Gyre

February 6, 2025 | R on kieranhealy.org

This post summarizes an extended period of deep annoyance. I have tried to solve the problem it describes more than once before and not quite done it. This has, in fact, happened again. I have still not satisfactorily solved the problem. But this time I know why I can’t ... [Read more...]

Simpson’s Paradox in a Logistic Regression

February 6, 2025 | Nina Zumel

Simpson’s paradox is when a trend that is present in various groups of data seems to disappear or even reverse when those groups are combined. One sees examples of this often in things like medical trials, and the phenomenon is generally due to ...
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Inflation in mediaeval China

February 5, 2025 | datascienceconfidential - r

In this post, I would like to draw attention to a very interesting data set collected by Guan, Palma and Wu as part of the replication package for their paper The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260-1368. The paper describes inflation, mon...
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New version of package gDefrag

February 5, 2025 | Frederico Mestre

We have developed a new version of the gDefrag package. The previous version has been retired from CRAN due to dependencies on outdated packages. This updated version is still under development and may contain limitations. Please exercise caution when using it. I have just uploaded a new version of the ...
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Crane 1.0.0 released!

February 4, 2025 | Open Analytics

Publishing is an integral part of the data analysis process. Whether it’s in the form of code, reports or technical documentation, at some point artifacts need to be shared. More often than not, such artifacts are confidential and their access n...
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Working with Time to battle Baby Amnesia

February 3, 2025 | John Russell

Battling first child amnesia I am a father of two sons; one 4.5 years old, and the other is but a few months. This may seem weird, but even though I went through everything with my first son… I have complete amnesia about what was normal, what ...
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Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It?

February 3, 2025 | Colin Fay

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It? Header image via ChatGPT We recently released something unprecedented: an app that brings R to mobile. Yes, you read that right — R, the statistical programming language, is now ... [Read more...]

Choroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN

February 2, 2025 | Ari Lamstein

I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived on February 12. The reason is that choroplethr depends on the acs package, and the acs package is being archived. Apparently when a package is archived from CRAN, all packages which use it are also archived. I am ... [Read more...]

Nuevo vídeo sobre como crear funciones en R

February 1, 2025 | Teoten

Nuevo vídeo de R en Español sobre cómo Crear Funciones. Este vídeo es parte de mi playlist R Desde Ceros que pretende enseñar los aspectos mas básicos del uso de R para generar las bases para programación y análisis de datos. En ... [Read more...]
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