eRum2020 goes virtual and becomes the first - free! - fully virtual R conference for hundreds of participants. The post eRum2020 becomes a virtual conference (from Milan!) appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

Generative Adversarial Networks are great for generating something from essentially nothing and there are some interesting uses for them. Most […] The post Some basics and intuition behind GAN’s in R and Python appeared first on Daniel Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

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Abstract: We discuss the estimation with R of the time-varying effective reproduction number during an infectious disease outbreak such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Using a single simulated outbreak we compare the performance of three different estimation methods. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+... [Read more...]

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On April 16th (8:00pm GMT+2) we will be delightful to host Heidi Seibold from University of Munich (Department of Statistics joins LMU Open Science Center) ). Heidi will share her experiences on Teaching Machine Learning online - very popular topic i... [Read more...]

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Quickstart The goal of this exercise is to replicate some of the results in Petersen (2009) using the R programming language. # load required packages library(lfe) Estimating Standard Errors with a Firm Effect OLS and Rogers Standard Errors In Petersen (2009), the author simulated a panel data set and then estimated the ... [Read more...]

Quickstart The goal of this exercise is to replicate some of the results in Petersen (2009) using the R programming language. # load required packages library(lfe) Estimating Standard Errors with a Firm Effect OLS and Rogers Standard Errors In Petersen (2009), the author simulated a panel data set and then estimated the ... [Read more...]

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Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and... [Read more...]

A minor routine update 0.0.4 of gettz arrived on CRAN overnight. gettz provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That happened when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into ... [Read more...]

One widely used graphical plot to assess the quality of a machine learning classifier or the accuracy of a medical test is the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve, or ROC curve. If you want to gain an intuition and see how they can be easily created with base R read on! ... [Read more...]

Introduction Welcome to my series of blog posts about my data manipulation package, {poorman}. For those of you that don’t know, {poorman} is aiming to be a replication of {dplyr} but using only {base} R, and therefore be completely dependency free. What’s nice about this series is that ... [Read more...]

Introduction Hello all and welcome to another edition of the poorman series of blog posts. In this series I am discussing my progress in writing a base R equivalent of dplyr. What’s nice about this series is that if you’re not into poorman and would prefer just to ... [Read more...]

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Today I interviewed Dr. Julia Silge, the creator of janeaustenr::, tidytext::, qualtRics::, and author of Text Mining with R. I’m still recovering from a hand surgery, and this time the interview was done by using a voice-to-text app and email. Int... [Read more...]

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