FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express ( Link to the original article.) From Patrick Mayor comes a question about something we’re doing these days to keep ourselves and others safe: social distancing. You’re walking along the middle of a wide sidewalk when you see someone walking toward you from the other ...

Summary The Riddler is a weekly puzzle provided by FiveThirtyEight. This week’s puzzle involves finding the path used by the knight to kill the opposing queen in a game of chess. Below, I show how I solved puzzle using two methods: a siumulation of the chessboard and by building ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...

The problem I stumbled across this problem as a TA for an introductory R course. It was a minor question on a Problem Set focussed on creating a Shiny app that the instructor had seeminly dismissed as trivial and not bothered to include in his solution guide. Anyways, I needed ...

The problem I stumbled across this problem as a TA for an introductory R course. It was a minor question on a Problem Set focussed on creating a Shiny app that the instructor had seeminly dismissed as trivial and not bothered to include in his solution guide. Anyways, I needed ...

Here, I demonstrate how to find the point where two histograms overlap. While this is an approximation, it seems to have a very high level of precision. Prepare simulated data I created two data sets, gamma_dist and norm_dist, which are made up of a different number of values ...

Here, I demonstrate how to find the point where two histograms overlap. While this is an approximation, it seems to have a very high level of precision. Prepare simulated data I created two data sets, gamma_dist and norm_dist, which are made up of a different number of values ...