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I am very happy to announce the release of dfms version 1.0 (and 0.4.0 just a week earlier, see news), implementing major features such as support for dynamic factor models (DFMs) with autoregressive errors, mixed-frequency (monthly-quarterly) DFMs, including with autoregressive errors, and decomposition of forecast revisions into news releases (updates to time ...

Guest post by Christian Martinez, developer of the nycOpenData package in R. nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package providing convenient, tidy access to dozens of ...

I saw a fun video on YouTube recently in which some runners attempted to do two parkruns in one day. I don’t mean run the same parkrun course twice, I mean they ran one parkrun at one course and then drove to a different course and ran that one ...

      Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes.       For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons...

This document describes the addition of support for variable fonts in R, when rendering glyphs, plus changes to the CRAN package xdvir to take advantage of that ...

We are pleased to announce the release of {pharmaversesdtm} 1.4.0 🎉 This release expands the breadth of SDTM test data available in the package, with a particular focus on neurology and oncology, alongside several targeted enhancements and fi...

We are pleased to announce the release of {pharmaversesdtm} 1.4.0 🎉 This release expands the breadth of SDTM test data available in the package, with a particular focus on neurology and oncology, alongside several targeted enhancements and fi...

Alt Text First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by allowing screen readers to describe images, or p...

1 Introduction – Why This Topic Matters A model that performs exceptionally well on a test set is not necessarily a good model; in many cases, it is a warning sign. High accuracy or low error metrics are meaningful only if we understand h...

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project. Since the inception of the future ecosystem, I (and others) have envisioned a tool ...

This semester I was teaching a graduate course on Monte Carlo methods at Paris Dauphine and I decided to experiment how helpful ChatGPT would prove in writing the final exam. Given my earlier poor impressions, I did not have great expectations and ended up definitely impressed! In total it took ...

1 Introduction – Why This Topic Matters A model that performs exceptionally well on a test set is not necessarily a good model; in many cases, it is a warning sign. High accuracy or low error metrics are meaningful only if we understand h...

In my recent book (see below), on page 166 and earlier, I made the point that, with pairwise comparisons and, more generally, whenever simultaneous statistical tests are performed, it is necessary to provide P-values that account for the familywise ...