It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
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RSS Chartered Statistician/ Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK
It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
We're recruiting at Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute (IDRIS) @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR817/a...
I have a very bad feeling about this...
27.10.2025 16:51 β π 54435 π 10215 π¬ 1856 π 645There was a great post by someone saying that choosing to use an LLM for coding is always like choosing to be the hare in the 'hare and tortoise'.
You set off quickly but inevitably run into problems. Eventually your counterfactual tortoise self - who did by building knowledge - walks past.
π gratia 0.11.0 is out!
Now has a paper in JOSS β please cite π doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing β‘
New assemble() for building plots π¨
Better support for complex families + new diagnostics π§ͺ
Lots of bug fixes + polish β¨
π gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
New Easy Read report on how COVID-19 affected people using social care, including people with learning disabilities & autistic people.
By Professors Chris Hatton & Richard Hastings.
tinyurl.com/3nxd847c
www.ft.com/content/8778...
Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.orgβs inaction over Elon Musk FRS
Men's mental health is an increasingly important area - please do consider taking part if you are a man 40-65 years old
08.05.2025 07:50 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0datamethods.org is a place where methodologists meet subject matter experts for in-depth discussions + Q&A related to study design, measurement, data analysis, interpretation, and more. Now on a new server with the latest version of discourse software. Come join us there. #StatsSky
24.04.2025 14:42 β π 59 π 18 π¬ 0 π 1NEW: CONSORT 2025 now published!
Some notable changes:
-items on analysis populations, missing data methods, and sensitivity analyses
-reporting of non-adherence and concomitant care
-reporting of changes to any study methods, not just outcomes
-and lots of other things
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social
β> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
Weβre back again this year showcasing excellent research involving people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people taking place across the Midlands! Thank you to our partners: NHS England, ADASS, NIHR RDN East and West Midlands, Reach-Out, University of Birmingham
12.03.2025 10:07 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 2 π 1Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats π¦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...
04.02.2025 08:09 β π 79 π 25 π¬ 3 π 1Hot off the press! π£π£In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Happy Birthday! Don't panic, 43 is fine if you have your towel. #Hitchhikersguidetogalaxy
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