The role of healthcare analytics
The primary objective of healthcare analytics is to seek benefits for health administrators, organizations, and patients, most importantly by enhancing patient experiences and improving health outcomes. The heal...
1 Introduction
“Correlation is not causation” – it’s a refrain we hear often, yet the distinction between these concepts is deceptively easy to overlook. Correlation refers to a statistical association: when one variable changes, another ...
1 Introduction
“Correlation is not causation” – it’s a refrain we hear often, yet the distinction between these concepts is deceptively easy to overlook. Correlation refers to a statistical association: when one variable changes, another t...
Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-production-ai...Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, ...
You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Containerizing Shiny Apps with {shiny2docker}: A Step-by-Step Guide
Deploying a Shiny application to different servers or sharing it with others can be challenging due to differences in R package versions and system requirements. ... [Read more...]
I finally understood B-splines by working through the Cox-deBoor algorithm step-by-step, discovering they’re just weighted combinations of basis functions that make non-linear regression linear. What surprised me is going through Bayesian statis...
This is the start of Pride month. I have friends, acquaintances, and family members in most if not all LGBTQ+ categories, and probably you do too although you may not know it. I wish they all could live lives of be...
Why relying on external benchmarks in media analytics can be misleading, and how building your own baselines leads to smarter, more context-aware decision making. [Read more...]
A flexible hybrid approach to probabilistic stock forecasting that combines machine learning with ARCH effects, offering an alternative to traditional ARMA-GARCH models
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Apply what you have learned about using pipelines for efficient pre-processing and model training on a regression problem.
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Bioconductor’s community chat is moving from Slack to Zulip on Monday 2 June 2025. The transition ensures long-term access to discussions and better reflects our open-source values.
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After this exercise, you should understand and be able to perform feature selection using wrapper functions with mlr3fselect. You should also be able ... [Read more...]
This is the third 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.
Introduction
In this blog post, we will show how to use the tidymodels framework for ...
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Learn how to rank features of a supervised task by their importance / strength of relationship with the target variable using a feature filter method.
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