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When you design experiments, you need to know how many participants it takes to get informative results. But what makes results informative? Simply put: A precise effect estimate, meaning an estimate that is unbiased and has a narrow confidence inte...

When the violence causes silence, we must be mistaken. Zombie, The Cranberries (1994) Data analysis can be more than quarterly KPIs or complicated statistical models — it can help us remember and critically retell our past. While Latin America is...

Good news! The smooth package v4.3.0 is now on CRAN. And there are several things worth mentioning, so I have written this post. New default initialisation mechanism Since the beginning of the package, the smooth functions supported three ways for initialising the state vector (the vector that includes level, trend, ...

Calling =TECHTO_SURVIVAL for Survival Analysis in Excel is just a matter of copying and pasting

This is part three of a five part series of related posts on validating R packages. Other posts in the series are: Validation Guidelines Package Popularity Package Documentation (this post) Code Quality Maintenance In this post, we’ll tak...

Introduction Naming a baby can be a difficult task. It can take - soon to be - parents quite some time to align on a name they both like. Afterwards it can also be challenging to keep the name a secret until birth. If you are lucky, there might be ...

Introduction This blog post was written during CoFest (CollaborationFest) that took place after the 2025 Galaxy Bioconductor Community Conference, held this year at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. For the first time, this joint ...

The more I use LLMs for programming, the more it seems to me that they can only be used successfully if you ask them to do things that you could do yourself. This seems to be the case because: you know exactly what you want/need and thus ...

Calling =TECHTO_SIMULATION for Stochastic Simulation in Excel is just a matter of copying and pasting

This blog post is a follow up to my 2025 R/Medicine talk on Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments. Over the last years Shiny has become a cornerstone in data science applications, from dashboards and review tools to interactive decisi...