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Part 1: Rare events are hard to find

A series of posts on understanding Martin Bland’s ‘Detecting a single event’

Convenient Sampling & Inconvenient Truths

An example of how sampling biases can induce confounding.

Small samples, big biases

publication bias

The influence of publication bias on estimating effect sizes.

What happens to the market in the first 2 months of a president’s term?

animated figure

data visualization

Using {quantmod} & {gganimate} to explore market changes under recent presidents.

TidyTuesday: Long Beach Animal Shelter

data visualization

This week’s tidytuesday included a published dataset from Long Beach Animal Shelter. Here’s what their README says:

TidyTuesday: Racial disparities in reproductive research

data visualization

This week’s tidytuesday included a published dataset from review article Racial and ethnic disparities in reproductive medicine in the United States: a narrative review of…

Stream graphs are a real scream 😱

data visualization

blogging-to-learn

Looking at horror franchises over time using {ggstream}

Modeling percent change

longitudinal data analysis

Estimate percent change in longitudinal data using log-transformations and {emmeans}

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