Description

In this episode, I chose mediation analysis over a hospital heist, gained additional sample size calculation insights, memorized machine learning methods, and battled my way up a text-based tower using package ‘rwarrior’.

References:

• Hierarchical Clustering with Contiguity Constraint in R
• Blang: Bayesian Declarative Modeling of General Data Structures and Inference via Algorithms Based on Distribution Continua
• Robust Mediation Analysis: The R Package robmed
• A Software Tool For Sparse Estimation Of A General Class Of High-dimensional GLMs
• bayesanova: An R package for Bayesian Inference in the Analysis of Variance via Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Gaussian Mixture Models
• blindrecalc - An R Package for Blinded Sample Size Recalculation
• Power and Sample Size for Longitudinal Models in R – The longpower Package and Shiny App
• RFpredInterval: An R Package for Prediction Intervals with Random Forests and Boosted Forests
• Alternative stopping rules to limit tree expansion for random forest models
• gMCPLite: Lightweight Graph Based Multiple Comparison Procedures
• pkglite 0.2.1 is released
• Python releases   3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14 are now available
• Ordinal Data: Definition, Examples & Analysis
• How the Population Distribution Influences the Confidence Interval
• Talks to watch at the RSS International Conference
• How to Avoid Overfitting?
• Beneath and Beyond the Cox Model (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/beneath-and-beyond-the-cox-model/)
• What are the algorithms used in machine learning? (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/what-are-the-algorithms-used-in-machine-learning/)
• 23 New books added to Big Book of R (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/09/23-new-books-added-to-big-book-of-r/)
• R Warrior Leader Board (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/r-warrior-leader-board/)

R-packages:

• oceanexplorer: Explore Our Planet's Oceans with NOAA
• OneArm2stage: Optimal One-Arm Two-Stage Phase II Design with Survival Endpoint
• rwarrior: R Warrior - An AI Programming Game
• manymome: Mediation, Moderation and Moderated-Mediation After Model Fitting
• voice: Tools for Voice Analysis, Speaker Recognition and Mood Inference
• shinylight: Web Interface to 'R' Functions