Washington Irving
@irvingwashington22.bsky.social
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Grumpy old guy here: Apple updates are more and more resembling Microsoft updatesāuseless at best, more work for the same outcome at worst. Thanks Apple!
about 5 hours ago
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This brings me a lot of joy. I ā¤ļø GT packages. š„°
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4 days ago
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Bias-variance tradeoff is one of those critically important statistical ideas that would be so much easier to grasp and discuss if it had a better name.
4 days ago
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Something they never mention in parenting classes is how emotionally draining taking children mini-golfing can be. This is a huge oversight, imo.
9 days ago
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In 2026, I resolve to need the phrase āI probably should not have eaten thatā with substantially less regularity.
10 days ago
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Iām in data cleaning hell and honestly considering asking an LLM to do it. I mean, not really considering it. But also not *not* considering itā¦
12 days ago
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What in worst airline in the US and why is it
@united.com
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16 days ago
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Iām the kind of person who makes a Christmas pudding every year even though I am not British, and my family hates it.
17 days ago
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Anyone with administrative experience in scientific publishing: Isnāt it financially burdensome for a journal to pay someone to look at submissions for formatting for all submissions? If 90% are rejected, thatās a lot of paper to look at for basically no benefit.
18 days ago
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Apple updates are becoming nearly as annoying as Microsoft. Cosmetic āimprovementsā and more clicks to do the same actions as the previous version. š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
22 days ago
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nice ref and explanation of why "trending toward significance" is...not really a thing.
www.bmj.com/content/348/...
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Trap of trends to statistical significance: likelihood of near significant P value becoming more significant with extra data
When faced with a P value that has failed to reach some specific threshold (generally P<0.05), authors of scientific articles may imply a ātrend towards statistical significanceā or otherwise suggest ...
https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2215
23 days ago
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reposted by
Washington Irving
doctor eep (alt decorative gourd season)
25 days ago
nobody ever tries biting zombies to see if it turns them normal again and i think that's a mistake from a scientific perspective.
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Unwillingness on the part of authors to provide CIs for main study results is: bizarre? Concerning? Some other adjective? What do other think?
27 days ago
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Public service announcement: if you are writing a paper about sepsis, you donāt need to include āsepsis is a life threatening condition characterized by organ dysfunction in the setting of infectionā. If weāre reading your paper on sepsis, we know what it is.
30 days ago
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Does anyone know how to yeet the MIMIC database into the sun? Asking for a friendā¦
about 1 month ago
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Canāt wait for all the junk, database/retrospective/registry papers comparing SOFA 2 to SOFA 1.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Development and Validation of the SOFA-2 Score
This article describes the data-driven development and validation of the final SOFA-2 score.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840822
about 1 month ago
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I wanna me #1, but Iām probably #2 š« Itās hard being an applied biostat reviewer in medicine.
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about 1 month ago
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many meetings are truly useless. truly. but once in a while, as i listen to a conversation, someone makes a comment--sometimes it's a throwaway or filler--and it becomes the rosetta stone for a project i am working on. like, duh, one can estimate correlation of REs in a multivariate modelš¤¦āāļø
#brms
about 1 month ago
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Even when was it was the vaccines, I knew it was really the frymblal and runctitional features
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about 1 month ago
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Amongst my favorite intro to R texts! Pirate humor abounds.
bookdown.org/ndphillips/Y...
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about 2 months ago
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Iām making a pledge to not submit to journals that force you to meet their idiosyncratic formatting rules for initial submissions. Happy to comply on any revisions, just not first try. Whoās with me?
about 2 months ago
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discovered this wonderful nugget perusing the ggridges help files: geom_density_ridges arranges multiple density plots in a staggered fashion, as in the cover of the famous Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures
about 2 months ago
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totally unrelated, but the feeling of saying, "yeah, i can do that stats thing you're asking about" when you're not sure that you really can do it. but then it turns out that, yes, you really CAN. š„°
about 2 months ago
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tensor product splines are super cool and i'm kind of in love. that's it. that's the entire post.
about 2 months ago
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Should these be called āsecretly informativeā priors?
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about 2 months ago
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Item 7,543 in the never ending list of r functions I wish I had known about sooner. Much cleaner syntax inside functions that fit models across multiple outcomes (which happens a lot in my work). š
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about 2 months ago
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š„°š„°š„° Iām not the only one!
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about 2 months ago
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nice paper on partial least squares discriminant analysis &potential limitations. lovely sentence from the conclusion section: "The obvious conclusion from our experiments is that it is a terrible idea to use PLS-DA blindly with all data sets."
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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So you think you can PLS-DA? - BMC Bioinformatics
Background Partial Least-Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) is a popular machine learning tool that is gaining increasing attention as a useful feature selector and classifier. In an effort to und...
https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-3310-7
about 2 months ago
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I was just in a coffee shop in a college town. At least half the laptops were open to ChatGPT windows. I mean, I know many people use LLMs as a replacement for google search. But omg, this feelsā¦worrisome.
about 2 months ago
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I love when good things, like mgcv, get even better!
#rstats
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about 2 months ago
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Anybody familiar with the analytic method (āwin ratioā) used in this study? Iām interested in an objective, pro-con sorta discussion.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Hemodynamic Resuscitation Targeting Capillary Refill Time in Early Septic Shock
This randomized clinical trial examines whether a personalized hemodynamic resuscitation protocol targeting capillary refill time was more effective than usual care in patients with early septic shock...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840823
2 months ago
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Dear Apple engineers. Can you please stop setting ālogitā to autocorrect to legit, leftist, login, or really anything else? When I say logit, I mean logit!
2 months ago
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This also makes me (sadly) wonder if prior-hacking is the Bayesian equivalent of p-hacking?
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2 months ago
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one of the greatest joys of working with bayesian models is the flexibility associated with prior specification. one of the greatest frustrations of working with bayesian models is the flexibility associated with prior specification.
#rstats
#brms
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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rmsb also appears to be the only Bayesian package that comes with a built-in nomogram feature which is š.
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2 months ago
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Man, Iāve written some ugly code in the past. But this lumbering beast of regex i just vomited to filter thru 2500 rows of free text is an unholy masterpiece to behold. And no, I will not be sharing.
#rstats
2 months ago
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Repost = endorsement.
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2 months ago
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I ā¤ļø science.
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3 months ago
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almost invariably, i eventually wind up at
hbiostat.org
for thoughtful answers to most of my statistical questions. this is a like an actual biostat goldmine that continuously grows more gold. sincere thank you to
@f2harrell.bsky.social
!
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3 months ago
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@hadley.nz
in case youāre taking suggestions for new
#tidyverse
verbs, may I suggest āyoink()ā? i donāt yet know what it does. But whatever that action is, Iād for sure use it *all the time!*
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3 months ago
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Ever discovered a new function in an r package and been like, man thatās so useful. It must be new or else Iāve had known about it? I advise against looking up when it was added to said package, unless youāre looking for a blow to your
#rstats
self-esteem.
3 months ago
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Ummā¦this is amazing. 10/10, would recommend.
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3 months ago
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Itās both pleasure and torture to struggle learning some new technique and the associated coding skills, even after a decade in the bio stat world.
#rstats
#brms
3 months ago
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looking for help changing the legend title on conditional_smooth plots of a t2 smooth from
#brms
. i've tried all manner of "labs" arguments and can't get it right. i've searched SO and stan forums and there's lots on conditional_effects, but less on smooths. š«
3 months ago
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from the never ending list of resources i wish i had when i was learning a particular concept, here is a great blog post by
@andrew.heiss.phd
about beta regression, including a portion using
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www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/11...
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A guide to modeling proportions with Bayesian beta and zero-inflated beta regression models | Andrew Heiss
Everything you ever wanted to know about beta regression! Use R and brms to correctly model proportion data, and learn all about the beta distribution along the way.
https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/11/08/beta-regression-guide/#a-beta-regression
3 months ago
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10/10 fully endorse.
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3 months ago
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question for the
#rstats
community. someone who still uses the magrittr pipe is edgy/retro/cool or an anachronistic chump who should get with the times? asking for a friend...
3 months ago
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Brought in to help with a project after data collection completed. Assured it would be "quick".
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3 months ago
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