Reposting Partial Pooling

January 8, 2025 | John Mount

Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to the […] [Read more...]

Spatial modelling with GAMs in R workshop

January 8, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Spatial modelling with GAMs in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: Spatial modelling with GAMs in R Date: Thursday, January 30th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)  Speaker: Sophie Lee is a statistician and educator who ... [Read more...]

Your Classifier Is Broken, But It Is Still Useful

January 8, 2025 | David Lindelöf

When you run a binary classifier over a population you get an estimate of the proportion of true positives in that population. This is known as the prevalence. But that estimate is biased, because no classifier is perfect. For example, if your classifier tells you that you have 20% of positive ...
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Some of the more useful Tidyverse functions

January 1, 2025 | tomaztsql

R functions for every data engineer using Tidyverse Tidyverse has long been an amazing collection of R packages, primarily for data engineering and data science. Common among these packages is the same language grammar, great design and structure, making data…Read more ›
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Getting back into blogging

December 27, 2024 | John Russell

Time since MƒA In one of my last posts 2 years ago, I mentioned that I would be looking for work and leaving MƒA. I ended up doubling down on my research background and becoming a part of EL Education’s Research Team, where I have taken an impr...
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