“Both students and instructors perceive standard-error statistics as a confusing collection of specialized tools. To improve student learning, instructors long for a reduction in the number of topics needed to...continue reading.
Hi everyone, and Happy New Year! This post is about some statistical inferences that one can do using as “data” the output of MCMC algorithms. Consider the trace plot above....continue reading.
Two weeks ago I flew from New York to Warsaw, Poland to begin a new role at Appsilon Data Science. On Saturday, I’ll be flying right back in the other...continue reading.
Abstract: Web-scraped data are used to put a Rubik’s cube competition result into perspective. The sugarcoating consists of altering the sampling frame of the comparison to the more relevant population...continue reading.
Data Scientists and Analysts are starting to overflow their cups with mostly non-value added work at the request of stakeholders. […] The post How To Say No To Useless Data...continue reading.
Data Scientists and Analysts are starting to overflow their cups with mostly non-value added work at the request of stakeholders. And many don’t have the courage or confidence to say...continue reading.
A permutation challenge as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: When considering all games between 20 teams, of which 3 games have not yet been played, wins bring 3 points,...continue reading.
By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science,...continue reading.
The purpose of this analysis is to create a quick and dirty forecast of the CCI30 Crypto Currency Index, using […] The post Quick Time Series Analysis of the CCI30...continue reading.
The purpose of this analysis is to create a quick and dirty forecast of the CCI30 Crypto Currency Index, using only a few lines of R code and easy-to-use and...continue reading.
If we collect independent pairs of observations from some bivariate distribution, then how can we estimate the expected squared perpendicular distance of each such point in the 2D plane from...continue reading.
Here is an R function that produces a Metropolis-Hastings sample for the univariate log-target f when the later is defined outside as another function. And when using a Gaussian random...continue reading.
This post by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv presents a parsimonious view of common statistical tests which are, on their own, confusingly and inconsistently named and, taken together, a mess. Jonas argues...continue reading.
Sin patria ni banderas, ahora vivo a mi manera; y es que me siento extranjero fuera de tus agujeros (Tercer movimiento: Lo de dentro, Extremoduro) The technique I experimented with...continue reading.
By the end of 2019, I finally managed to wrap up my third R package YAP (https://github.com/statcompute/yap) that implements the Probabilistic Neural Network (Specht, 1990) for the N-category pattern recognition...continue reading.
The working group of Statistics at Humboldt University of Berlin invites applications for one Postdoctoral research fellow (full-time employment, 3 years with extension possible) to contribute to the research on...continue reading.
A 2017 paper by Ana Pajor published in Bayesian Analysis addresses my favourite problem [of computing the marginal likelihood] and which I discussed on the ‘Og, linking with another paper...continue reading.
The WPS Analytics’ version of the SAS language is now available in a Community Edition. This edition allows you to run SAS code on datasets of any size for free....continue reading.
Jumping Rivers are coming to San Francisco in January 2020! We’ll be running a number of R training courses with Paradigm Data. You can find the booking links and more...continue reading.
A major criticism on the binning algorithm as well as on the WoE transformation is that the use of binned predictors will decrease the model predictive power due to the...continue reading.
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