‘Confoundr’ software can be used to help diagnose confounding & selection bias with time-varying exposures. Schnellinger et al. (2020) explain how: doi.org/10.1093/aje/kw… ✅Am J Epidemiology

Due to COVID-19, University Councils across the UP System unanimously decided not to hold the UPCAT for admission of students in AY 2021-22. Instead, the UP Office of Admissions is currently modifying the admissions system for the next intake year. Read: up.edu.ph/no-upcat-2021-…

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UP will begin accepting applications for first-year students for AY 2021-2022 on 7 January 2021, via an online portal especially for admissions applications. Read more: up.edu.ph/up-to-start-ac…

May everyone have safe celebrations this season and year-round health this 2021.

Some people follow me for my statistics insights. Other people like me for my social commentary. This thread explains how those things are related. 👇

KNOW YOUR COVID-19 VACCINES! Information you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccines on our current portfolio:

“Kanino nga ba dapat magtanong tungkol sa bakuna?” A COVID-19 vaccine comics series by themindmuseum

1. Ischaemic Heart Disease 2. Neoplasm (commonly known as cancer) 3. Cerebrovascular Diseases 4. Diabetes Mellitus 5. Hypertensive Diseases 6. Remainder of Diseases of the Genitourinary System

House passes bill seeking to standardize licensure of physical therapists bit.ly/3BQbAF6

Not really my first year in teaching but as one of the most junior in the college, I must say I’m still in the path of finding my marigold. Find Your Marigold: The One Essential Rule for New Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy cultofpedagogy.com/marigolds/

so glad to have come across this gem of an insight that my early-career academic heart is very touched

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Read this while having my morning cup of coffee today. Existential thoughts were lingering for today's breakfast episode.

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3 data types that can power your next data visualization Most people struggle with how to plot their data. But if you know your data type, the process becomes easy. How to visualize your data (by Steve Franconeri):

If you're still using raw R outputs for presentations, it's time for an upgrade! Tools like gtsummary bring your statistical results to life, making them much more digestible for non-technical audiences. While base R functions like summary(fit) work well for statisticians, they

The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() 🧵

Bring your ggplot2 visualizations into 3D with rayshader! This extension adds powerful 3D plotting capabilities to R, making it easy to transform standard visuals into interactive and visually engaging data representations. With rayshader, you can: ✔️ Add Interactive 3D Effects

When building predictive models, overfitting is a common challenge. Shrinkage methods, such as Ridge Regression, Lasso, and Elastic Net, help address this by adding a penalty term to the objective function during training, which discourages large coefficients. This results in