R-bloggers

Power and ‘fragile’ p-values by @ellis2013nz

June 7, 2025 | free range statistics - R

Do ‘fragile’ p values tell us anything? I was interested recently to see this article on p values in the psychology literature float across my social media feed. Paul C Bogdan makes the case that the severity of the replication crisis in science can be...

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Beyond Nelson-Siegel and splines: A model-agnostic Machine Learning framework for discount curve calibration, interpolation and extrapolation

June 6, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Beyond Nelson-Siegel and splines: A model-agnostic Machine Learning framework for discount curve calibration, interpolation and extrapolation

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Rethinking Image Formats

June 5, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Adding images to a web page used to be straightforward. You’d add the img tag to the HTML, set the src attribute to the appropriate URL and, hopefully, write some informative alt text. (You might also add some CSS, either inline or via a styles...

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Let It Flow: recreating a FACS plot with ggplot

June 5, 2025 | Stephen Royle

It’s plot recreation time! In this post, we’ll look at how we can recreate a plot in R. I thought it might be useful to provide the solution but also to detail the process I went through to get there. We have a FACS plot taken from a ...

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New Mentoring Team, Same Open Science Spirit

June 4, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Español. We are excited to introduce the new team of mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program! This year, we have ten very talented individuals, all from Latin America, who bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm, and commit... [Read more...]

R version of Probabilistic Machine Learning (for longitudinal data) Reserving (work in progress)

June 4, 2025 | T. Moudiki

R version Examples of use of Probabilistic Machine Learning (for longitudinal data) Reserving

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introduction to Bayesian methods for the social sciences (18-22 Aug, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano)

June 4, 2025 | xi'an

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Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 1

June 3, 2025 | Vidisha Vachharajani

The role of healthcare analytics The primary objective of healthcare analytics is to seek benefits for health administrators, organizations, and patients, most importantly by enhancing patient experiences and improving health outcomes. The heal...

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Correlation vs Causation: Understanding the Difference

June 3, 2025 | M. Fatih Tüzen

1 Introduction “Correlation is not causation” – it’s a refrain we hear often, yet the distinction between these concepts is deceptively easy to overlook. Correlation refers to a statistical association: when one variable changes, another t...

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Repost: The Modern R Stack for Production AI

June 3, 2025 | Stephen Turner

Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-production-ai...Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, ...

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Containerizing Shiny Apps with {shiny2docker}: A Step-by-Step Guide

June 3, 2025 | Vincent GUYADER

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Containerizing Shiny Apps with {shiny2docker}: A Step-by-Step Guide Deploying a Shiny application to different servers or sharing it with others can be challenging due to differences in R package versions and system requirements. ... [Read more...]

Understanding Basis Spline (B-spline) By Working Through Cox-deBoor Algorithm

June 2, 2025 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

I finally understood B-splines by working through the Cox-deBoor algorithm step-by-step, discovering they’re just weighted combinations of basis functions that make non-linear regression linear. What surprised me is going through Bayesian statis...

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month

June 2, 2025 | Jerry Tuttle

This is the start of Pride month. I have friends, acquaintances, and family members in most if not all LGBTQ+ categories, and probably you do too although you may not know it. I wish they all could live lives of be...

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Beyond ARMA-GARCH: leveraging model-agnostic Machine Learning and conformal prediction for nonparametric probabilistic stock forecasting (ML-ARCH)

June 1, 2025 | T. Moudiki

A flexible hybrid approach to probabilistic stock forecasting that combines machine learning with ARCH effects, offering an alternative to traditional ARMA-GARCH models

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Benchmarks vs. Baselines: When ‘Above Average’ Isn’t Good Enough

June 1, 2025 | Stencilled

Why relying on external benchmarks in media analytics can be misleading, and how building your own baselines leads to smarter, more context-aware decision making. [Read more...]

Permutations and SHAPley values for feature importance in techtonique dot net’s API (with R + Python + the command line)

May 31, 2025 | T. Moudiki

How to use techtonique.net's API to compute feature importance using permutations and SHAPley values

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Which patient is going to survive longer? Another guide to using techtonique dot net’s API (with R + Python + the command line) for survival analysis

May 30, 2025 | T. Moudiki

How to make API calls to techtonique.net for survival analysis and plot the results with rush

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Filters

May 29, 2025 | Giuseppe Casalicchio

JavaScript is required to unlock solutions. Please enable JavaScript and reload the page, or download the source files from GitHub and run the code locally. Goal Apply what you have learned about using pipelines for efficient pre-processing and model training on a regression problem. House Prices in King county In ... [Read more...]

A Guide to Using techtonique.net’s API and rush for simulating and plotting Stochastic Scenarios

May 29, 2025 | T. Moudiki

How to make API calls to techtonique.net for stochastic simulation using diffusion models, and plot the results with rush

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Feature Selection

May 28, 2025 | Giuseppe Casalicchio

JavaScript is required to unlock solutions. Please enable JavaScript and reload the page, or download the source files from GitHub and run the code locally. Goal After this exercise, you should understand and be able to perform feature selection using wrapper functions with mlr3fselect. You should also be able ... [Read more...]

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