Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case

January 23, 2025 | Nina Zumel

Photo by Marco Verch, CC-2.0. Source In a previous post, we looked at Dyson’s algorithm (Dyson 1946) for solving the Coins in Weighings problem : You have coins, to appearance exactly identical; but possibly one is counterfeit (we’l...
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Shiny in Production 2025

January 23, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The fourth instalment of Shiny in Production is back this October, hosted at the Catalyst in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the super early bird deadline on the 31st of January! Set in the heart of Newcastle, this conference dives into the world of {s...
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How Are P-values Distributed Under The Null?

January 22, 2025 | David Lindelöf

I sometimes use this fun interview question for aspiring data scientists: How are p-values distributed assuming the null hypothesis is true? I’ve heard a lot of reasonable answers, including: All very reasonable and intuitive answers which I would probably, at some point, have given myself. They’re also all ...
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Monte Carlo [exam]

January 21, 2025 | xi'an

My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on accept-reject algorithms and importance/bridge sampling. One of the problems was a decomposition of the truncated Normal simulation method proposed ...
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Hello admiralmetabolic!

January 20, 2025 | Anders Askeland

Introduction The ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} team is celebrating the newest addition to the extension package family with the release of Metabolism Extension Package for ADaM in R Asset Library • admiralmetabolic {admi...
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Get Better: R for cell biologists

January 20, 2025 | Stephen Royle

How can we teach “R for cell biologists” rather than teaching R to cell biologists? I’ve noticed that many R training courses will teach R – regardless of who is taking the course – and leave it to the participants to figure out how they can use R in their own ...
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