Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...
Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...
This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow this link...
This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow ...
Introduction
I am a massive fan of repositories making binary R packages available. This includes the canonical CRAN repositories,
r-universe,
r2u, and the
Posit (Public) Package Manager, and there are others. R-universe is outstanding because it bu...
Short practical advise on search advertising:
Look beyond brand and category keywords
The paper shows “associated keywords” — terms like “license,” “battery,” “plates” — are searched 50-80 days before purchase, have high category purchase prob... [Read more...]
Working with Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) researchers across multiple resource-limited countries, we observed that valuable datasets often remain underutilized. This is frequently due to limited familiarity with FAIR (Findable, Accessib...
Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! On this page: What’s new? Evaluation Setup Results What’s next? Here is what’s new since 4.3.0: First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in ...
I am excited to introduce a new R package called flownet providing high-performance tools for transport modeling—network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. As of now, the package implements the Path-Sized Logit (PSL) model (Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire, 1999)—a powerful and well-established method for stochastic traffic assignment accounting ...
I recently read Branko Milanovic’s 2023 book, Visions of Inequality: from the French Revolution to the Cold War and gave it five stars. The bulk of the book is an excellent critical look at the views of six major economic thinkers—Quesnay, Smith, Ricar...
R • Sports Analytics • Ratings • Monte Carlo • Forecasting Sports are noisy. Teams change. Injuries happen. Upsets happen. But uncertainty is not the enemy—it’s the input. In this hands-on guide you’ll build a practical sports prediction workflow in R using tidyverse, PlayerRatings, and NFLSimulatoR, then connect ratings to Monte ... [Read more...]
I first encountered TMLE—sometimes spelled out as targeted maximum likelihood estimation or targeted minimum-loss estimate—about twelve or so years ago when Mark var der Laan, one of the original developers who literally wrote the book, gave a talk ... [Read more...]
I first encountered TMLE—sometimes spelled out as targeted maximum likelihood estimation or targeted minimum-loss estimate—about twelve or so years ago when Mark var der Laan, one of the original developers who literally wrote the book, gave a talk ... [Read more...]
Palaeoverse, a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology, has been awarded a Large Grant from the Software Sustainability Institute, via the Research Software Maintenance Fund, for the project ‘Converting Users to Contrib... [Read more...]
Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/openai-codex-app-qqman.Earlier this week I reposted a Bluesky post from Ethan Mollick.
I’m on the same page here — there are problems for sure, but these
tools have irreversibly changed th...
Short practical advise on media targeting decisions:
Calculate the “Break-Even Multiplier” Before Spending
Instead of asking if a targeting segment will perform better than a broad audience, calculate exactly how much better it needs to be to ... [Read more...]