From Code to Compliance: Validated Shiny Apps with Rhino

January 29, 2025 | Vedha Viyash

Developing GxP-validated applications that comply with strict regulatory requirements has been a significant challenge in the past, particularly due to the lack of tooling around good software development practices. This is no longer the case, over the years, many tools have been developed to help R programmers follow good software ...
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registration open for BayesComp 2025

January 28, 2025 | xi'an

The registration for the incoming, exciting, Bayes Comp 2025 conference (and its satellites) is now open, including information regarding accommodations for the conference. Early bird rates run till 15 March. Furthermore, the call for contributed talk...
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December 2024 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

January 26, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In December, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Agriculture, Biology, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Healthcare, Health Technology Assessment, Ma...
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Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case

January 23, 2025 | Nina Zumel

Photo by Marco Verch, CC-2.0. Source In a previous post, we looked at Dyson’s algorithm (Dyson 1946) for solving the Coins in Weighings problem : You have coins, to appearance exactly identical; but possibly one is counterfeit (we’l...
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Shiny in Production 2025

January 23, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The fourth instalment of Shiny in Production is back this October, hosted at the Catalyst in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the super early bird deadline on the 31st of January! Set in the heart of Newcastle, this conference dives into the world of {s...
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How Are P-values Distributed Under The Null?

January 22, 2025 | David Lindelöf

I sometimes use this fun interview question for aspiring data scientists: How are p-values distributed assuming the null hypothesis is true? I’ve heard a lot of reasonable answers, including: All very reasonable and intuitive answers which I would probably, at some point, have given myself. They’re also all ...
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Monte Carlo [exam]

January 21, 2025 | xi'an

My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on accept-reject algorithms and importance/bridge sampling. One of the problems was a decomposition of the truncated Normal simulation method proposed ...
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