R-bloggers

A recent seminar introduced me to a new kind of statistical inference called post-Bayesianism. It has its own website, seminar series, Youtube videos and, most importantly, a cool name1. Will it catch on? I don’t know, but I think it’s interesting, and...

Remember our journey so far? We started with simple Markov chains showing how statistical word prediction works, then dove into the core concepts of word embeddings, self-attention, and next word prediction. Now, it’s time for the grand finale: if you want to build your own working transformer language model ...

I’m happy to share that my latest research paper, “Semi-Markov modeling for disease incidence risk and duration” has been accepted for publication in the journal Biostatistics & Epidemiology (Soetewey et al., 2025). Read the full paper here. T...

      Gematria is a Greek word for the practice of assigning numerical values to letters. In Hebrew it has been used to interpret Jewish texts, particularly the Bible, by attempting to discover hidden meanings or connectio...

Your statistical model is built, and your p-values are perfect, but is your conclusion valid? What if a single, overlooked duplicate entry in your dataset is silently skewing your results, leading to flawed insights? How can you be certain that the data you're analyzing is clean, accurate, and trustworthy?The ...

It’s been 18 years since ggplot2 revolutionized data visualization in R. To celebrate this milestone, I’m offering a special bundle deal on my data visualization books. The “Beautiful Plots Across Languages” Bundle For just $19.99 USD, get two ...

Last week I posted about the proportion of p values that will be ‘fragile’ under various types of scientific experiments or other inferences. The proportion of p values that is fragile had been defined as the proportion that are between 0.01 and 005. I...

Using techtonique dot net's API for programming language-agnostic reserving using any Machine Learning model

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: From lab to real life: How your Shiny application can survive its users From prototype to production, make sure nothing breaks… You’ve created a fantastic mockup and your client is delighted. You’re ...

Charles Schwab analysts said that historically, budget deficits have had minimal impact on Treasury yields, primarily due to the United States’ economic dominance and its status as the issuer of the world’s reserve currency. The variable importance analysis with the XGBoost machine learning model confirms the aforementioned statement. Source ...

Enjoyed learning penalized GAM math. Built penalty matrices, optimized λ using GCV, and implement our own GAM function. Confusing? Yes! Rewarding? Oh yes! We dove into the engine of what made basis spline work on our last blog, now let’s add to...

This is the fourth part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. Aims of this post This post aims to give a minimal example on how to use mlr3 for a ...

Introduction I was interested to see whether and how well R would run on the new RISC-V architecture. A while ago I read that RISC-V is now a first class architecture for Ubuntu. This got me thinking, instead of having to build R from source maybe the...