Table of Contents Introduction Setup One group Two groups: single set of weights Two groups: separate spline bases and per-group weights Two groups: single spline basis and per-group weights Two groups: per-group weights with hierarchical prior One group: multivariate-normal prior on weights Two group: multivariate normal prior on weights Session ...

This post explains a Markov regime switching state space model. The bottom line is two-fold: 1) expanding states by each regime transitions and 2) collapsing each updated estimates for the next state prediction. The step 2) is necessary to fix t...

By Huey Fern Tay with Greg Page Everyone loves an extra income stream – even the super-wealthy owners of luxurious properties that they only inhabit for just a few weeks each year.  Offering a property as a short-term rental through a platform like Airbnb can provide a wonderful side hustle.  For ...

The Appsilon Shiny Conference is on April 17-29, 2022. Only two months left to go until the big event. And with March right around the corner, that means the call for proposals is closing soon. Submit now to share your project, packages, and Shiny applications with the global Shiny community. Join ...

Streamlit Tutorial on RStudio Connect At Appsilon we specialize in R and Shiny, but as data scientists and ML engineers we also know our way around Python. In our recent Streamlit tutorial series, we created a Streamlit application from scratch. If you completed the tutorial you might’ve noticed it ...

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In scientific data and experiments, we often have groups of subjects between which we want to compare an observed response. For example, we might want to compare the growth rates of plants under different light treatments. Or maybe we want to compare C...

The newest release of polished, 0.6.0, is now on CRAN. The biggest user facing enhancement of this release is the new ability to secure R Markdown documents using Polished Auth. The secured R Markdown output can be a static document, or it can use t...

Photo courtesy of Pexels Installing software packages from public repositories like CRAN or PyPI is easy until it isn’t. New developers and veterans reading this are likely familiar with the frustration of a lost afternoon from a package failing to install accompanied by an indecipherable error message—spending hours ...

The Monash time series forecasting respository is a comprehensive collection of time series data made available in a convenient form to encourage empirical forecast evaluations. The repository includes the data from many forecasting competitions includ...

YakData SmartDesktop with RStudio Desktop Server is the best way to download & install RStudio Desktop for use on Mac or Windows computers in 2022. It includes R 4.1.2 from the Rocker project, the RStudio IDE as a web app, hundreds of top data science packages included and it is all managed easily ...