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Birthday bundle – CC-BY-NC-SA by Rosie Rogers The birthday problem is a classic counter-intuitive mathematical result concerning the probability that two people, in a group, have the same birthday. The formal solution is too complex for me ...

This post is a collection of more technical notes forming a companion piece to the previous post on men’s time spent on domestic chores and total fertility rates at the country level. The target audience for today’s post is future-me, and anyone else ...

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. The full explanation is here: A Personal Message from an Open So...

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. The full explanation is here: A Personal Message from an Open So...

How is it that in the year 2025 of our Lord installing a Python package is still such a gamble? This post comes from someone that rarely uses Python, but consider the following: the rare times I need to use it, I’m often confronted to dep...

Last fall, my co-authors Stephanie Zimmer, Rebecca Powell, and I released Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R. Earlier this August, we had the joy of teaching a workshop based on the book at useR! 2025. One of our favorite examples in...

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

Getting back Into It It’s been a while for this website; a lot of my work has been used on projects that can’t be easily shared here. That said, I have been at the Edinburgh Fringe this month supporting my wife, and I wanted to use a Tidy ...

Cloud providers are no longer just offering traditional x86-based servers, ARM-based servers are now becoming a serious alternative. And for good reason: they’re often far more cost-effective and power-efficient than their x86 counterparts. For ...

Motivation Epidemiological delays inform about the time between two well-defined events related to a disease. The serial interval (SI) of an infectious disease is defined as the time between symptom onset in a primary case (infector) and symptom onset in a secondary case (infectee). It is a widely used epidemiological ...

1 Introduction Missing data is one of the most common challenges in data analysis and statistical modeling. Whether the data originates from surveys, administrative registers, or clinical trials, it is almost inevitable that some values are abs...

Bernstein has conducted an analysis of the U.S. supply and demand balance in analog and discrete semiconductors, particularly in light of the potential introduction of Section 232 tariffs. The analysis focuses on the implications for major companies, including Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Infineon Technologies and Renesas. According to analysts led ...

This time, I will do an absurd amount of useless conversions 🙂 Some might make some sense – in the long looong run, but most will for sure have none. It all started with coffee 🙂 and the initial question…Read more ›

Wikipedia donations style note: Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. The full explanation is here: A ...