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View ArticleAge-standardised death rates in R: which European country has the highest...
I wanted to answer a plain question with open data: which European country has the highest death rate? Dividing deaths by population is one line of R, and it says Bulgaria, with Turkey safely at the...
View ArticleHow to Run a Welch ANOVA in R When Group Variances Differ
I was reading R’s own help pages back to back when I noticed that its defaults contradict each other. t.test() compares two groups without assuming their variances are equal: the var.equal argument...
View ArticleYour Data Failed the Normality Test. Now What?
If you work with clinical or epidemiological data, you have met this moment: you measured a biomarker, ran shapiro.test() out of habit, and got p < 0.001. The textbook reflex says the data is not...
View ArticleMaking a Manuscript Table 1 in R: tableone, table1, and gtsummary Compared
Almost every clinical or epidemiological paper opens with the same table: Table 1, the table of baseline characteristics that describes who was in the study, usually split by treatment arm or exposure...
View ArticleAn R alternative to pairs for -omics QC
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View ArticleHow I selected my starting word for Wordle using simulations and R
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View ArticleDitch p-values. Use Bootstrap confidence intervals instead
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View ArticleIntroduction for Decision Tree
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View ArticleCorrelation vs PPS in Python
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View ArticleEarthquake Analysis (4/4): Cluster Analysis
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View ArticleEarthquake Analysis (3/4): Visualizing Data on Maps
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View ArticleEarthquake Analysis (2/4): Categorical Variables Exploratory Analysis
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View ArticleEarthquake Analysis (1/4): Quantitative Variables Exploratory Analysis
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View ArticleAn R alternative to pairs for -omics QC
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryBasic StatisticsTagsData Visualisationggplot2R ProgrammingtidyverseIntroduction The Problem: I've got a...
View ArticleHow I selected my starting word for Wordle using simulations and R
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryBasic StatisticsTagsData VisualisationlaresR ProgrammingWordle has been around for some time now and I think...
View ArticleDitch p-values. Use Bootstrap confidence intervals instead
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryBasic StatisticsTagsBasic StatisticsExploratory AnalysisR ProgrammingTips & TricksP-values don’t mean...
View ArticleIntroduction for Decision Tree
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryBasic StatisticsTagsDecision TreesDecision Tree falls under supervised machine learning, as the name...
View ArticleCorrelation vs PPS in Python
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryBasic StatisticsTagsCorrelationPythonPython comes with functions and libraries that find hidden patterns and...
View ArticleEarthquake Analysis (4/4): Cluster Analysis
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