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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Affiliation Harrison – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, Washington DC Cara – Department of the Air Force (Studies, Analyses, and Assessments – AF/A9), Washington DC Disclaimer The views expressed in this article represent the personal views of the author and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense (DoD) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. One hundred sixty-four new packages made it to CRAN in February. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualizations. Computational Methods delayed v0.3.0: Implements mechanisms to parallelize dependent tasks in a manner that optimizes the computational ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality.This is the fourth and final post in a series devoted to comparing different machine learning methods for predicting clothing categories from images using the Fashion MNIST data by Zalando. In the first post, we prepared the data for analysis and built a Python deep learning neural network model to predict the clothing categories of the Fashion ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. This post examines simulation of COVID-19 spread using R, and how such simulations can be used to understand the effects ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Welcome to another installment of Reproducible Finance. Today’s post will be topical as we look at the historical behavior of the stock market after days of extreme returns and it will also explore one of my favorite coding themes of 2020 – the power of RMarkdown as an R/Python collaboration tool. This ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the third post in a series devoted to comparing different ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, also located at Liverpool, Sydney. His background is in general medicine, general practice medicine, occupational health, public health practice, particularly population health surveillance, and clinical epidemiology. As I write this on 4th March, 2020, the world is on the cusp of a global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov2 virus. Every news report is dominated by alarming, and ever-growing cumulative counts of global ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the second post in a series devoted to comparing different machine ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. One hundred forty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. Computational Methods FSSF v0.1.1: Provides three methods proposed by Shang & Apley (2019) to generate fully-sequential space-filling designs inside ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Last week, Lancet published the paper Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA by Alison P Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Eric M Foster, Burton H Singer, Meagan C Fitzpatrick of CIDMA, the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health. The paper, which, provides a detailed ... Read More