NEWS: our ⁦#MOOC “Regulated Competition in Healthcare Systems: Theory & Practice” with Frank Eijkenaar, Richard van Kleef, Erik Schut, Marco Varkevisser & Wynand van de Ven ESHPM ErasmusUniRdam⁩ is now available on #Coursera! coursera.org/learn/regulate…

The second Dutch Stan meetup is happening on 31 October 2019! This time in Utrecht, thanks to the sponsor Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit. Details and registration can be found here: saravanerp.com/events/second-…

Don't forget to register for the Dutch Stan meetup next week!

At the second Dutch Stan meetup held at Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit, Duco Veen shows how to generate shinystan diagnostic reports for Stan models, with a single line of code!

At the second Dutch Stan meetup at Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit, Christof Seiler @[email protected] explains how to use Stan to model hierarchical, multivariate, zero inflated count outcomes! slides at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

The second Dutch Stan meetup just took place at the Dutch Healtcare Authority Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit. Inspiring, well received talks by Duco Veen and Christof Seiler @[email protected]! Thanks everyone who joined us tonight, until next time!

New blog post: Building TensorFlow 2.2 on an old PC gsverhoeven.github.io/post/deep-lear… #tensorflow #keras #rstats #ai

new blog post (with Misja Mikkers) on #brms and #rstan: Using posterior predictive distributions to get the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) with uncertainty gsverhoeven.github.io/post/posterior… #bayes #rstats Stan

New blog post on #reinforcementlearning : Solving a textbook sequential decision problem called “Jack’s Car Rental” by turning it into a Gym environment gsverhoeven.github.io/post/jacks-car… #python #datascience #openai #gym

New blog post on #reinforcementlearning : Solving FrozenLake using Q-learning: converging on the true Q-values gsverhoeven.github.io/post/frozenlak… #Python #openAI #Gym #DataScience

Nieuwe blogpost met Misja Mikkers (misja mikkers) en Ramsis Croes (@ramsisc): Een werkwijze voor beleidsevaluatie, met nadruk op causale modellen, gesimuleerde (nep) data en preregistratie. misjamikkers.github.io/post/beleidsex…

New blog post: My current workflow for writing scientific papers in Rstudio. Star of the show is the open source reference manager Zotero gsverhoeven.github.io/post/zotero-rm… #rstats #rbbt Dewey Dunnington

Over the last years, we have been working on a new website for empirical researchers. It provides lots of information on how to set up workflows for empirical projects. It also introduces researchers to freely available tools. And there is starter code. tilburgsciencehub.com

New blog post: Using R to analyze the Roche Rapid Antigen Test: How accurate is it? I extracted data from studies mentioned in the kit’s leaflet, and used #rstats for analysis and visualization. gsverhoeven.github.io/post/covid_ant… #datascience #covid19

New blog post: "Nufflytics: Analyzing Blood Bowl matches using Python" Blood Bowl is a strategic game of Fantasy Football that can be played online. In the post I showcase some analyses on FUMBBL data I compiled. gsverhoeven.github.io/post/blood-bow… #datascience #python #bloodbowl

New blog post: Optimal performance with Random Forests: does feature selection beat tuning? gsverhoeven.github.io/post/random-fo… I show that irrelevant variables can reduce the performance of the Random Forest algorithm even after tuning. Feature selection saves the day! #DataScience #RStats

New blog post where I combine clustered heatmaps, my favorite #rstats dataviz, with #BloodBowl, my favorite boardgame! gsverhoeven.github.io/post/blood-bow…

Visualizing Blood Bowl Tournament rosters {r-bloggers.com/?p=339095} #rstats #DataScience

Season 3 of the Super League has just started on FUMBBL! I wrote a blog (link below) explaining how the league works and analyzing data from the first two seasons. Who are the top coaches to beat? And who are the rising stars? Link: gsverhoeven.github.io/post/blood-bow… #bloodbowl

New blog post: Statistical computing on a shoestring: Stan in the Azure cloud using Cloud-init Automating deployment of an inexpensive Linux R/Stan development environment in the Azure public cloud. gsverhoeven.github.io/post/azure-sta…