BayesCamp prize 2019
Each year at the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics, I award a BayesCamp prize for the talk with … Morecontinue reading.
Each year at the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics, I award a BayesCamp prize for the talk with … Morecontinue reading.
by Bob Muenchen & Sean MacKinnon One of us (Muenchen) has been tracking The Popularity of Data Science Software using a variety of different approaches. One approach is to use...continue reading.
Very briefly: Last week was useR! conference time again, coming to you this time from Toulouse, France I’ve retrieved 8 318 tweets that mention #user2019 and run them through my...continue reading.
Compared with other types of neural networks, General Regression Neural Network (Specht, 1991) is advantageous in several aspects. Being an universal approximation function, GRNN has only one tuning parameter to...continue reading.
I was at the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics last week, which I help to organise and is … Morecontinue reading.
After the development of MOB package (https://github.com/statcompute/MonotonicBinning), I was asked by a couple users about the possibility of using the decision tree to drive the monotonic binning. Although I am...continue reading.
Chunk Average (CA) is an interesting concept proposed by Matloff in the chapter 13 of his book “Parallel Computing for Data Science”. The basic idea is to partition the entire...continue reading.
A. Background The growth of womens powerlifting has been a interesting thing to witness over the past decade. There have been massive increases in strength and world records have been...continue reading.
In my previous post https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/sobol-sequence-vs-uniform-random-in-hyper-parameter-optimization/, I’ve shown the difference between the uniform pseudo random and the quasi random number generators in the hyper-parameter optimization of machine learning. Latin Hypercube Sampling...continue reading.
This was a thread on Twitter but I wanted to share it here for a different audience. Today’s thought (actually … Morecontinue reading.
A. Background The Open Powerlifting initiative attempts to create an accurate and open archive of all powerlifting meet data throughout the world. As someone who recently started competing again after...continue reading.
In the R parallel package, there are two implementations of parallelism, e.g. fork and socket, with pros and cons. For the fork, each parallel thread is a complete duplication of...continue reading.
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but bear with me. A recent question on Stack Overflow [r] asked why a random forest model was not working as expected....continue reading.
This week we return to Australian Rules Football, the R package fitzRoy and some statistics to ask – why can’t Geelong win after a bye? (with apologies to long-time readers...continue reading.
This was a thread on Twitter, and I thought should reach a different audience here too. If you wonder why … Morecontinue reading.
It has been only two months since I summarized my reviews of point-and-click front ends for R, and it’s already out of date! I have converted that post into a...continue reading.
More Google StreetView ideas. Suppose you wanted a measure of infrastructure investment, or of fragility because maintenance has been cut … Morecontinue reading.
You have a nominal predictor variables with many values. That is to say, there are many categories and they do … Morecontinue reading.
Hi all, Niloy Biswas (PhD student at Harvard) and I have recently arXived a manuscript on the assessment of MCMC convergence (using couplings!). Here I’ll describe the main result, and some...continue reading.
I’m now starting workshops on some topics with this small group exercise: You’re the CEO of a startup that’s going … Morecontinue reading.