use R, YAML and bookdown to automate generation of procedure books Context: How to do this thing that only your colleague does when he’s not here? I recently put on github a project that contains a little framework to list procedures in a structu... [Read more...]

use R, YAML and bookdown to automate generation of procedure books Context: How to do this thing that only your colleague does when he’s not here? I recently put on github a project that contains a little framework to list procedures in a structu... [Read more...]

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Thus far, I have published four different monotonic binning algorithms for the scorecard development and think that it might be a right timing to do a quick summary. R functions for these binning algorithms are also available on https://github.com/statcompute/MonotonicBinning. The first one was posted back in 2017 (... [Read more...]

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Swings are far from uniform Last week I introduced a Bayesian state space model of two-party-preferred voting intention for Australian federal elections. It treats the surveys from various polling firms as imperfect (potentially systematically imperfe... [Read more...]

We usually work with different data sources, and sometimes we can find tables distributed over several Excel sheets. In this post we are going to import the average daily temperature of Madrid and Berlin which is found in two Excel files with sheets for each year between 2000 and 2005: download. Packages ... [Read more...]

I received many messages regarding my book promotion (see previous post ). I’ll use this post to answer the most frequent questions:   Does the paperback edition have a discount? No. The price drop is only valid for the ebook edition but not by choi... [Read more...]

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Those who use knitr::include_graphics() frequently in their R Markdown files may discover some inconsistencies (from the user point of view) if the same Rmd is used for multiple output formats, especially when PDF (LaTeX) is involved. The following co... [Read more...]

A minor RcppArmadillo bugfix release arrived on CRAN today. This version 0.9.200.7.1 has two local changes. R 3.6.0 will bring a change in sample() (to correct a subtle bug for large samples) meaning many tests will fail, so in one unit test file we reset the generator to the old behaviour to ... [Read more...]

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Cover I recently did a book promotion for my R book in portuguese and it was a big sucess! My english book is now being sold with the same promotion. You can purchase it with a 50% discount if you buy it on the 10th day of march. See it here. ... [Read more...]

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Event Logs The digitalization of healthcare is more than just electronic medical records. It has also allowed each instance a clinician conducts an activity for a patient to be stored as a log. These logs stored in the healthcare institution’s information system are known as event logs. Event logs ... [Read more...]

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