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Over the past couple of years, I've really fallen in love with #tikz and all of its quirks.
TikZ is a plotting/graphics package for LaTeX that is especially useful for creating mathematical diagrams.
The support for mathematical notation is unbeatable and the flexibility of the language is extremely high. Also, graphics rendered to pdf/svg in this way are extremely lightweight and reproducible
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My research assistant sure seems fond of generating high quality evidence for treat(ment effect)s 🐾
#dogsofmastodon
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I've been reading about missForest today
MissForest—non-parametric missing value imputation for mixed-type data
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/28/1/112/219101
https://github.com/stekhoven/missForest
Runs much faster than `{mice}` in my experience, and I like the fewer parametric assumptions.
The above article on missForest is David Stekhoven and Peter Bühlmann's most cited art
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Some choice quotes on the topic of instrumental variables:
From Swanson and Hernán 2014
> Imbens states we are “limited in the questions we can answer credibly and precisely.” We agree, but there are differences between the questions we can answer and the questions we want answered. Choosing only answerable questions (e.g., identifying the LATE in some settings) can mislead decision-making efforts
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Over the past couple of years, I've really fallen in love with #tikz and all of its quirks.
TikZ is a plotting/graphics package for LaTeX that is especially useful for creating mathematical diagrams.
The support for mathematical notation is unbeatable and the flexibility of t…
I've been reading about missForest today
MissForest—non-parametric missing value imputation for mixed-type data
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/28/1/112/219101
https://github.com/stekhoven/missForest
Runs much faster tha…
Is anyone in the US CDC / NIH even working on the Ebola Bundibugyo strain now?
Over a year ago labs these were shuttered
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
We are losing so many years of critical resea…
An enjoyable read I stumbled on
https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-139.pdf
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Some choice quotes on the topic of instrumental variables:
From Swanson and Hernán 2014
> Imbens states we are “limited in the questions we can answer credibly and precisely.” We agree, but there are differences between the questions we ca…
I’ve been trying to read more carefully about instrumental variables and make up my mind about when IV arguments are scientifically convincing.
Here's a tension I keep running into:
Should the scientific question alone determine the causa…
Very proud to announce the first version of my new R package {nadir} was released today on CRAN!
Check it out --
https://ctesta01.github.io/nadir/
{nadir} is a package for super-learning, which is ensemble weighting candidate machine le…
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/trump-administration-freezes-2-2-billion-in-grants-to-harvard/
Today basically every faculty I ran into at the Harvard School of Public Health told me they had their grants cancelled — for work they do towards…
Link for those who are super curious:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319074
My research assistant sure seems fond of generating high quality evidence for treat(ment effect)s 🐾
#dogsofmastodon
I’d like to start a conversation about the #accessibility of math. Someday I aspire to be a professor, and I want to be inclusive to students of a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, but math (esp. advanced math) is full of details …
Thanks everyone for the great comments!
Some of the takeaways I'm hearing are:
* dplyr/tidyverse ease of use comes at the trade-off of underlying complexity; So it's great/fine to use in data analysis scripts or projects, but viewed as…
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Using mathematical models to advance health equity and health justice. PhD Student in Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He/him ⧉ #rstats #CausalInference #SpatialStats #HealthJustice
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