Achim Zeileis
@zeileis.org
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statistics, science, software
https://www.zeileis.org/
pinned post!
๐ bsky! โถ๏ธ I just joined - fed up with the bird place for too long. I'll also remain @
[email protected]
๐ I'll post about: statistics, science, software. Often combining all three in my work for Journal of Statistical Software #jstatsoft ๐ค Hope to learn new interesting stuff & meet new people!
about 2 years ago
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๐จ How to create elegant
#dataviz
with base
#rstats
and the
#tinyplot
pkg ๐ useR! 2025 presentation by Grant McDermott
@gmcd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB-...
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tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott
YouTube video by useR! Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB-QS-vMeY
3 days ago
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Grant McDermott
8 days ago
Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube.
youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?...
#rstats
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tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott
YouTube video by useR! Conference
https://youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?si=brHiV-xfGgHlsYWj
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Jan Van Haaren
8 days ago
We're expanding the Club Brugge Football Data Science team. As our Football Data Scientist, you'll work with one of the most advanced analytics infrastructures in football to help management, scouting, and analysis staff turn data into better decisions.
jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist
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Football Data Scientist at Club Brugge
As a Football Data Scientist, you will be responsible for researching and developing advanced models and metrics for analyzing player and team performances and evaluating potential acquisitions for Cl...
https://jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist
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๐จ New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection
#rstats
#anomalydetection
By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman
@robjhyndman.com
, Gaetano Romano URL:
cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...
16 days ago
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Bruno Rodrigues
16 days ago
if someone wants to give feedback on a paper iโll be submitting soon titled "Nix for Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science Workflows" thatโd be greatly appreciated!
github.com/b-rodrigues/...
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rix_paper/paper.qmd at master ยท b-rodrigues/rix_paper
Contribute to b-rodrigues/rix_paper development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix_paper/blob/master/paper.qmd
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๐ข PSA for colleagues at
@uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
๐ New release of
#latex
and
@quarto.org
presentation styles in UIBK corporate design - LaTeX beamer theme with more banners - Quarto+beamer for PDF - Quarto+revealjs for HTML - Code with
#rstats
and
#python
Link:
www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-re...
16 days ago
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๐ก Came across this nice tool today: ๐จ qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions
#dataviz
JOSS paper, online tool, R package
#rstats
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
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Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone
Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936
https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08936
21 days ago
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mcc
26 days ago
What I'm listening to today: "Olson" Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg
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Rob Hyndman
about 1 month ago
We're looking for a new actuarial professor.
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
@monashebs.bsky.social
@monashuniversity.bsky.social
#actuarial
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Job Search
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/684931/professor-actuarial-studies
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๐ข PSA: The R-Forge server is under attack from hackers and hence web access (e.g., for package installation) is currently down.
#rstats
The team at WU Wien is working on it. I'll report here when it is back up again.
about 1 month ago
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Michael Friendly
about 1 month ago
Where was tinyplot alll my
#rstats
life?
add a skeleton here at some point
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R-Podcast (Eric)
about 1 month ago
Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out!
serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
๐๏ธ Parse & edit #markdown documents
@ropensci.org
๐ค Vibe-coding a package
@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
๐ซ R-Exams quality control
@zeileis.org
h/t
@mike-thomas.bsky.social
#markdown
& Jon Carroll ๐
#RStats
#DataScience
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Issue 2025-W39 Highlights
Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences atโฆ
https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/211
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๐จ PSA for R/exams users. New StackOverflow post showing how to generate interactive overviews of all your exercise files. In response to the question by
@luca-scr.bsky.social
#rexams
#rstats
stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
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Create a document with an overview of all available R/exams exercises
I have several .qmd files with R/exams exercises. I can select a subset and include them in a PDF file using exams2pdf() without any problem. However, I would like to produce a PDF file with all the
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79772886#79773194
about 1 month ago
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Michael Friendly
about 2 months ago
#dataviz
#StatsSky
A fun new game:
dataguessr.com
Place countries in order based on some variable
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Dataguessr
Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.
https://dataguessr.com/
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Grant McDermott
about 2 months ago
`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes. Detailed changelog:
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...
#rstats
#dataviz
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Andreas Steinmayr
about 2 months ago
Next year, we will host the VfS Annual Meeting in Innsbruck. I look forward to seeing many of you on our beautiful campus in the Alps.
#VfS_Conf2026
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Jonathan Carroll
about 2 months ago
The latest issue of @rweekly is now live! https://rweekly.org/2025-W39.html This week's highlights: โ๏ธ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents by
@rOpenSci
๐๏ธ I Vibe Coded an R Package by
@jonocarroll
โ๏ธ Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams by [โฆ]
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https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll/115245071345797855
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Vincent Arel-Bundock
about 2 months ago
Whoaโmy book is up for pre-order! ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ : ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ & ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง
#Rstats
๐๐ง๐
#PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ยฑ any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
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Andreas Handel
8 months ago
I was looking for a way to include quizzes in
#Quarto
and ended up writing down my thoughts in a brief blog post:
www.andreashandel.com/posts/2025-0...
Would love to hear from experts like
@andrew.heiss.phd
and others if I missed (or misinterpreted) anything ๐
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Quizzes and exercises for Quarto websites โ Andreas Handel
Andreas Handel personal website.
https://www.andreashandel.com/posts/2025-02-25-exercises-in-quarto/
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๐ข New
#rexams
tutorial: Quality control for scanned multiple-choice exams with nops_fix() in
#rstats
- Automatic display of problematic sheets - Prompting for manual corrections - Special checks for implausible answer patterns - Manual review of specific exam sheets
www.r-exams.org/tutorials/no...
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Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams
Step-by-step guide to using nops_fix() for fixing problems that occurred during scanning written NOPS exams in R/exams.
https://www.R-exams.org/tutorials/nops_fix/
about 2 months ago
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Dirk Eddelbuettel
about 2 months ago
Every now and then someone is wrong on the interwebs. Every now and then we push back. A few years ago I set up github repo 'ldlasb' ('lies, damn lies, and selective benchmarks'). Today it was time for 'ldlasb2' which contains the note and four charts.
#rstats
eddelbuettel.github.io/ldlasb2/benc...
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Benchmarking cpp11armadillo and RcppArmadillo: But Correctly This Time
https://eddelbuettel.github.io/ldlasb2/benchmarks.html
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Vincent Arel-Bundock
about 2 months ago
This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular. "Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered." (with A+ co-authors)
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Just want to play the quiz ๐ก and test your flag skills โ๏ธ Click on โบ in the bottom right corner for new random versions of each question โก
www.r-exams.org/assets/posts...
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Fun with Flags
https://www.R-exams.org/assets/posts/2025-09-02-fun_with_flags/flags.html
2 months ago
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๐ R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags How to: Create standalone quizzes with
#rstats
#rexams
#quarto
Demo: Knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors (honoring Sheldon Cooper) ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ฌ๐น ๐ง๐ฟ Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc
www.r-exams.org/general/fun_...
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R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags
A knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors illustrates how R/exams and Quarto can be leveraged for standalone self-learning materials (and pays tribute to Sheldon Cooper).
https://www.r-exams.org/general/fun_with_flags/
2 months ago
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๐ฃ New blog post: Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas - Create quiz zip using exams2canvas() from
#rexams
- Import in
#canvaslms
via API and vvcanvas pkg - Manipulate settings programmatically from
#rstats
By Niels Smits
www.r-exams.org/tutorials/vv...
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Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas
Canvas quizzes can be created with exams2canvas in R/exams and then imported and managed in Canvas using the R package vvcanvas.
https://www.R-exams.org/tutorials/vvcanvas/
about 2 months ago
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Grant McDermott
4 months ago
#rstats
#econsky
PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered.
github.com/lrberge/fixe...
You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.
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Frank Harrell
2 months ago
Task views on CRAN have been amazingly helpful for many years. They are always getting better.
#RStats
add a skeleton here at some point
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๐จ Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis
#rstats
Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in
#clinicaltrials
Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki
@thomasjaki.bsky.social
, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl
cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...
2 months ago
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Statistik Austria
2 months ago
๐ Was waren die beliebtesten Mรคdchennamen der letzten 40 Jahre? ๐ In der Vornamensstatistik hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten einiges verรคndert.
#Vornamen
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๐ R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags How to: Create standalone quizzes with
#rstats
#rexams
#quarto
Demo: Knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors (honoring Sheldon Cooper) ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ฌ๐น ๐ง๐ฟ Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc
www.r-exams.org/general/fun_...
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R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags
A knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors illustrates how R/exams and Quarto can be leveraged for standalone self-learning materials (and pays tribute to Sheldon Cooper).
https://www.r-exams.org/general/fun_with_flags/
2 months ago
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David Firth
2 months ago
At next week's RSS conference I'll be presenting a poster (a first for me...it's about time!) "Tetraplot displays of UK General Election results" shows how to graph GE 2024 vote shares across 4 parties in a useful way. Full PDF poster at:
github.com/DavidFirth/t...
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Julia M. Rohrer
2 months ago
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w
@vincentab.bsky.social
) Preprint:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website:
j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
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Armin Wolf
3 months ago
Sehr lesenswerter, umfassender und aktueller Sammelband zur (รถsterreichischen) Neutralitรคt. Und das Beste daran - es gibt alle 23 Kapitel als PDF frei zugรคnglich hier online:
www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/78...
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Vincent Arel-Bundock
3 months ago
{tinytable} 0.13.0 for
#RStats
can now draw interactive tables with sorting, filtering & pages! And the ๐ฆ is still an ultra-simple, powerful, and 0-dep way to create beautiful tables in basically any format: tex, typ, docx, pdf, png, md, etc Gallery & Docs:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Gavin Simpson
3 months ago
๐ gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS โ please cite ๐
doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing โก New assemble() for building plots ๐จ Better support for complex families + new diagnostics ๐งช Lots of bug fixes + polish โจ ๐
gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
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An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
https://gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
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Kelly Bodwin
3 months ago
If you want to enjoy my
#useR2025
post-spamming of last week's
#rstats
stuff, but a bit more organized and consolidated, then boy do I have a blog post for you:
kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po...
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UseR!2025: My Top 10 โ paRticles
https://kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/posts/2025-08-12-user-2025/
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Kelly Bodwin
3 months ago
Last but very definitely not least in the
#useR2025
โก๏ธtalks:
@vincentab.bsky.social
showing us the power of {tinytable}! IMHO: {gt} is king for fancy reproducible html tables, but {tinytable} should be the go-to for quick formatting and other file formats.
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Michael Friendly
3 months ago
#rstats
So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.
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โฝ Probabilistic forecasts for the
#WEURO2025
finale using our machine learning ensemble.
#ENGESP
#ENG
#ESP
Probability to win 51.2% vs. 48.8% ๐ฅ In normal time: Mean goals: 1.1-1.1 ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ 36.4% Draw 29.3% ๐ช๐ธ 34.3% Heatmap with probabilistic forecasts for the possible outcomes of the match in normal time:
3 months ago
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Julia M. Rohrer
11 months ago
One thing that just keeps giving is
@vincentab.bsky.social
's marginaleffects package (see
marginaleffects.com
). It's just a complete game changer, moving from "trying to discern what model coefficients tell you after careful recoding" to "you know what, just compare these slopes, thx"
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Tim Kaiser
3 months ago
I also recently used
@zeileis.org
sandwich package and could just feed a clustered covariance matrix into marginaleffects. Pretty neat
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Francesca Finotello ๐ฅ๏ธ๐งฌ
4 months ago
๐ฅ๏ธ๐งฌ The University of Innsbruck is offering PostDoc fellowships for women:
www.uibk.ac.at/en/research/...
Do you have a strong plan for a bioinformatics project (e.g. spatial/single-cell/multiomic data analysis, AI for oncology, immunogenomics)? I would be happy to support you with your application!
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UIBK - FemCareer - Fellowship
Three-year career development programme at the UIBK for external, female early career postdocs
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/research/research-funding/postdoc/femcareer/
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Stephen Turner
4 months ago
useR! 2025 virtual registration is free
user2025.r-project.org/program/virt...
#Rstats
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โฝ Probabilistic forecasts for today's match at
#WEURO2025
using our machine learning ensemble. In Semifinal:
#GERESP
#GER
#ESP
Probability to advance: 49.7% vs. 50.3% ๐ฅ In normal time: Mean goals: 1.2-1.2 ๐ฉ๐ช 36.0% Draw 27.4% ๐ช๐ธ 36.6% Probability heatmap for the possible scores in normal time:
4 months ago
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โฝ Probabilistic forecasts for today's match at
#WEURO2025
using our machine learning ensemble. In Semifinal:
#ENGITA
#ENG
#ITA
Probability to advance: 76.3% vs. 23.7% ๐ฅ In normal time: Mean goals: 1.6-0.6 ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ 61.2% Draw 24.4% ๐ฎ๐น 14.4% Probability heatmap for the possible scores in normal time:
4 months ago
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easystats
4 months ago
๐ Great news, R users! ๐ We're thrilled to announce that {tinyplot} support is coming to the
#rstats
#easystats
project! Get ready for even more amazing stuff to make your data analysis a breeze! ๐โจ
@gmcd.bsky.social
@vincentab.bsky.social
@zeileis.org
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Dirk Eddelbuettel
4 months ago
PSA for
#Rstats
from the R NEWS RSS stream: Let's all cite the new DOI for the R manuals.
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โฝ Probabilistic forecasts for today's match at
#WEURO2025
using our machine learning ensemble. In Quarterfinal:
#FRAGER
#FRA
#GER
Probability to advance: 48.7% vs. 51.3% ๐ฅ In normal time: Mean goals: 1.1-1.1 ๐ซ๐ท 34.4% Draw 28.8% ๐ฉ๐ช 36.8% Probability heatmap for the possible scores in normal time:
4 months ago
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โฝ Probabilistic forecasts for today's matches at
#WEURO2025
using our machine learning ensemble. In Quarterfinal:
#ESPSUI
#ESP
#SUI
Probability to advance: 76.4% vs. 23.6% ๐ฅ In normal time: Mean goals: 2.4-1.2 ๐ช๐ธ 64.9% Draw 18.3% ๐จ๐ญ 16.8% Probability heatmap for the possible scores in normal time:
4 months ago
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