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Episode 24: The Way of the R Warrior

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In this episode, I chose mediation analysis over a hospital heist, gained additional sample size calculation insights, memorized machine learning methods, and battled my way up a text-based tower using package ‘rwarrior’.

References:

  • Hierarchical Clustering with Contiguity Constraint in R
  • Blang: Bayesian Declarative Modeling of General Data Structures and Inference via Algorithms Based on Distribution Continua
  • Robust Mediation Analysis: The R Package robmed
  • A Software Tool For Sparse Estimation Of A General Class Of High-dimensional GLMs
  • bayesanova: An R package for Bayesian Inference in the Analysis of Variance via Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Gaussian Mixture Models
  • blindrecalc - An R Package for Blinded Sample Size Recalculation
  • Power and Sample Size for Longitudinal Models in R – The longpower Package and Shiny App
  • RFpredInterval: An R Package for Prediction Intervals with Random Forests and Boosted Forests
  • Alternative stopping rules to limit tree expansion for random forest models
  • gMCPLite: Lightweight Graph Based Multiple Comparison Procedures
  • pkglite 0.2.1 is released
  • Python releases   3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14 are now available
  • Ordinal Data: Definition, Examples & Analysis
  • How the Population Distribution Influences the Confidence Interval
  • Talks to watch at the RSS International Conference
  • How to Avoid Overfitting?
  • Beneath and Beyond the Cox Model (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/beneath-and-beyond-the-cox-model/)
  • What are the algorithms used in machine learning? (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/what-are-the-algorithms-used-in-machine-learning/)
  • 23 New books added to Big Book of R (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/23-new-books-added-to-big-book-of-r/)
  • R Warrior Leader Board (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/r-warrior-leader-board/)

    • R-packages:

    • oceanexplorer: Explore Our Planet's Oceans with NOAA
    • OneArm2stage: Optimal One-Arm Two-Stage Phase II Design with Survival Endpoint
    • rwarrior: R Warrior - An AI Programming Game
    • manymome: Mediation, Moderation and Moderated-Mediation After Model Fitting
    • voice: Tools for Voice Analysis, Speaker Recognition and Mood Inference
    • shinylight: Web Interface to 'R' Functions
      • ...more
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