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I thought I’d share a comment I made on Perry de Valpine‘s post on the NIMBLE blog, A close look at some linear model MCMC comparisons. Perry was posting about a paper that tried to compare efficiency of Stan, NIMBLE, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

finnstats can help you improve your data abilities and advance your profession. Homoscedasticity in Regression Analysis, The Goldfeld–Quandt test checks for homoscedasticity in regression studies in statistics. Subscribe This is accomplished by separating a dataset into two portions or groups, which is why the test is... The post Homoscedasticity ... [Read more...]

Four editions of Why R? conferences were a great community success. During each onsite edition, we gathered around 250-300 R enthusiasts from Europe and we managed to carry out more than 100 presentations and 35 workshops over 3 years. Last year we or... [Read more...]

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Functional trait-based research has a unifying role in ecology, allowing the integration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics across different levels of biological organization and across spatial-temporal scales. The basic rationale underlining functional ecological studies relies on the fact that the role a organism play in an ecosystem is not determined ... [Read more...]

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Week 11 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 11 (2021) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

I’ve been wanting to create a custom MaxMind mmdb file for alternate IPv4 range classifications for a while, and finally had an opportunity to do so for the $DAYJOB. MaxMind mmdb files are small and easy to work with and provide lightning fast lookups. This repo — https://github.com/... [Read more...]

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In this first post I’m going to present a way of obtaining age- and sex-adjusted incidence rates using poisson regression in R. This will be similar to what is done in Stata as described here. I’ve written a R function that’s available for download h... [Read more...]

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You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {attachment} v0.2.3: fill the Remotes field A new version of {attachment} is available on CRAN. Get dependencies installed from GitHub, GitLab, … and add the link to the ‘Remotes’ field in the DESCRIPTION file of ... [Read more...]

As technology and research methods advance, the data sets tend to be larger and the methods more exhaustive. Consequently, the analyses take longer to run. This poses a challenge when the results are to be presented using R Markdown. One has to walk the line between reproducibility and efficiency. On ... [Read more...]

When knitting an R Markdown document after the first time, errors may sometimes appear. Three tips are recommended below. 1. Close PDF reader window When the document is knitted through the ‘Knit’ button, a PDF reader window opens to present the result. Closing this window can help resolve knitting errors. 2. Delete ... [Read more...]

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Jaccard Similarity in R, The Jaccard similarity index compares two sets of data to see how similar they are. It might be anywhere between 0 and 1. The greater the number, the closer the... The post How to Calculate Jaccard Similarity in R appeared first on finnstats. [Read more...]

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