New issue of Statistical Thinking News is available: paper.li/stn #StatThink @vandy_biostat Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute @EdgeforScholars #bbrcourse

tidycensus version 1.0 is now released on CRAN! This major new release includes Matt Herman's implementation of a Migration Flows API interface with support for flow mapping: walker-data.com/tidycensus/art… Thanks to all of you who have used tidycensus over the past four years! #rstats

Success! My package📦causaldata 📦 is available on CRAN (install.packages('causaldata')), ssc (ssc install causaldata), and PyPI (pip install causaldata). causaldata contains data sets used in The Effect (by me), The Mixtape (scott cunningham), and What If (Miguel Hernán and Robins)

One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, & Minneapolis. Most disordered: Charlotte, Sao Paulo, Rome & Singapore. Paper: appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.10…

I am *overjoyed* to announce that our newest OpenIntro book "Introduction to Modern Statistics" (co-authored with the fantastic @jo_hardin47) is out! 🔗 openintro.org/book/ims/online Read the 🧵 for more! 1/n #statsed #datascied #rstats #openeducation #OERR

If you are writing manuscripts in RMarkdown, you may wish to auto-generate citations for all R packages used in the document. ✍️ The {write_bib} function from {knitr} 📦 does exactly this! 📄 rdrr.io/cran/knitr/man… #rstats #DataScience

Recorded version of Regression Modeling Strategies 4-day May 2021 course is now available: hbiostat.org/doc/rms/4day.h… #rmscourse

People have claimed that ivermectin is 100% effective as a prophylactic for COVID-19 based on an observational trial of the drug I'm extremely concerned about this trial. It definitely should not be used as evidence for anything 1/n

If you are reading the 2nd edition of "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" and want to pick up #tidymodels at the same time, then you are in luck ✨ I have compiled complementary labs using tidymodels for all of you to use and teach with emilhvitfeldt.github.io/ISLR-tidymodel… #rstats

"Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in #rstats" is almost ready for you to read for free online. Just the intro chapter and conclusion left to finish up!

New CDC "During May3–Jul25 the overall age-adj'ed #vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization in New York was stable (91.9%–95.3%). The overall vaccine effectiveness against #COVID19 infection for all New York adults declined from 91.7% to 79.8%." cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

I have seen a lot of people obsessing with Table 5 of the 8/21 UK Delta report: 402 Covid deaths among 47,008 fully vaccinated for case fatality rate 0.86% 253 Covid deaths among 151,054 unvaccinated for CFR=0.17% Do vaccines increase CFR 5-fold? 1/4 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Paper by Geir-Arne Fuglstad, Zehang Richard Li and me just posted to arXiv. Discusses, and hopefully bridges, the survey sampling and spatial statistics approaches to prevalence mapping arxiv.org/abs/2110.09576

There’s this great line from Popper (1972): “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

Analyses you don’t have to do ever again: - tests for baseline balance in RCT - tests for normality - Hosmer Lemeshow test - Bar graphs with error bars (detonator plots) Imagine all the great things you can do with the time you saved!

If you are starting a new semester with "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" and want to pick up #tidymodels at the same time, then you are in luck✨ I have compiled (mostly complete) labs using tidymodels for all of you to use and teach with emilhvitfeldt.github.io/ISLR-tidymodel… #rstats

Announcing that my free text Biostatistics for Biomedical Research has been significantly updated and turned into a 22 chapter reproducible e-book thanks to RStudio 's Quarto : hbiostat.org/bbr #bbrcourse #Statistics #clinicaltrials #RStats @vandy_biostat @EdgeforScholars

For anyone still believing that "machine learning methods" and "statistical methods" are well-defined and separable groups of different analytical approaches, feel free to read our paper on this jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…