When preparing my mid-term exam for my undergrad mathematical statistics course, I wanted to use the inverse Gaussian distribution IG(μ,λ) as an example of exponential family and include a random generator question. As shown above by a Fortran computer code from Michael, Schucany and Haas, a simple version can be ...

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The double density plot contains a lot of useful information. This is a plot that shows the distribution of a continuous model score, conditioned on the binary categorical outcome to be predicted. As with most density plots: the y-axis is an abstract quantity called density picked such that the area […]

I’ve done an experiment regarding package downloads from CRAN (or the RStudio CRAN mirror at least) and now it’s time to share the results. When the first version (0.0.1.0) of SwimmeR was released on CRAN in October of 2019 it had very few features - just a couple functions for ...

I’ve done an experiment regarding package downloads from CRAN (or the RStudio CRAN mirror at least) and now it’s time to share the results.

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(purrr)
library(dlstats)
library(flextable)

flextable_style <- function(x) {
  x %>%
    flextable() %>%
    bold(part = "header") %>% # bold header
    bg(bg = "#D3D3D3", part = "header") %>% # puts gray background behind the header row
    align_nottext_col(align = "center", header = TRUE, footer = TRUE) %>% # center alignment
    autofit()
}

Introduction When the first version (0.0.1.0) of SwimmeR was released on CRAN in October of 2019 it had very few features - just a couple ...

This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Let’s learn how relocate, a new function that speeds up column arrangements. Get the Code: GitHub Link Video Tutorial: ...

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# Libraries
packages <- 
  c("tidyverse",
    "sergeant",
    "tictoc"
    )

if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) {
  install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages())))  
}

invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE))

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = NA,
  fig.width = 12,
  fig.height = 8,
  out.width = '100%'
)

Introduction At Redwall, we have been in nonstop exploration of new data sets over the last couple of years. As our data grows and the targets of interest get bigger, we have been finding the old method of loading csv’s from disc, and ...

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Francisco, a researcher from Spain, reached out to me with a challenge. He is interested in exploring various models that estimate correlation across multiple responses to survey questions. This is the context: He doesn’t have access to actual dat...

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