Can alternative means of phenotyping rheumatoid arthritis reduce its apparent heterogeneity? A comparison of three disease activity classifications with DAS28 - PubMed Separating subjective and objective dimensions reveals different RA patient profiles that are grouped together by DAS28, demonstrating the extent to which DAS28 is confounded by factors beyond RA disease activity. Disentangling and treating heterogeneous RA patient profiles may therefore require mor …

High disease activity is high disease activity is high disease activity?
- Nope!

Not all patients with rheumatoid arthritis are the same – even when they have exactly the same disease activity score!

Full article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41839530/

Part of #SPIDERR and @squeezeproject.bsky.social

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

I'm certainly a #julialang evangalist, but I've toned it down a bit - a lot of scientists don't have the time or inclination to go against the grain. Then again, when someone makes it this easy... #tidytuesday #rstats

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

“But even if you do not “produce” something, eg as a birder who just likes to watch birds, it is still something people value in you. That is because Spinozist full expression of yourself is virtuous.”

Earlier this month I gave a workshop on Bayesian methods in epidemiology. With my hosts I developed a pretty elaborate, demonstrative analysis for the workshop which I am happy to share publicly here.

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Luciole Luciole is a new typeface developed explicitly for visually impaired people.

Check this out: an accessible math font which actually looks nice!
www.luciole-vision.com/en/math.html

@gdalle.bsky.social Might this be interesting for the implementation of log scale inference in HiddenMarkovModels.jl? I recall you mentioning in a Turing / HMM issue that you avoided log-sum-exp because it is so costly.

Back home, back to the promotion grind.

This August and September! Four brand new remote courses, each covering a powerful Bayesian modeling technique with comprehensive Stan exercises! Enthusiastic punctuation!

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An image of a Pallas's Leaf-warbler incorrectly labelled as "Hippie ovenbird".

My new favourite pastime:
- find a bird (of course) on Wikipedia
- switch language to Suomi 🇫🇮
- translate the page using some plugin
- benefit

I present to you, the Hippie Ovenbird (also known by it's lesser known, and far more boring name "Pallas's Leaf-warbler")

A poster showing the event schedule for the Learn Bayes Methods Week at Karolinska Institutet from May 12-15.

Join us for the Learn Bayes Methods Week at Karolinska Institutet from 12-15 May!

Monday through Thursday will be packed with fantastic seminars and workshops in this all-you-can-eat Bayesian buffet (or smörgåsbord).

Want to participate in #TidyTuesday but #julialang is more your speed? Check out #TidierTuesday!

github.com/TidierOrg/Ti...

Big shout out to @jonthegeek.com , @frankiethull.bsky.social , and the folks behind @tidierjl.bsky.social for their work making this happen.

A flowchart. The first box has text "Build a model" and arrow to the second box. The second box has text "Model and prior checking" and arrows to the third and fourth box. The arrow with text "not good" goes to the third box, which has text "Refine model" and an arrow back to the second box. The arrow with text "good" goes to the fourth box, which has text "Use the model".

I'll talk about Bayesian workflow Thu 24th April 11-12 CEST in Learn Bayes seminar by Karolinska Institutet @ki.se learnbayes.se/events/bayes... (zoom available)

The focus will be different to my previous workflow talks (see users.aalto.fi/~ave/videos....). This time more flowcharts and shortcuts

Friendly reminder for those in the greater Sweden area that I'll be hosting a free, day long workshop on Bayesian inference and modeling with interactive epidemiology exercises on Wednesday May 14, learnbayes.se/events/gener.... Additional info at learnbayes.se/information/....

TidierCourse is a free, work-in-progress set of materials for learning Julia and Tidier.jl.

tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse...

o1 musing to itself in German: "Sister, I am working on considering all possibilities."

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Breaking news: In May I'll be hosting a one-day, interactive workshop on Bayesian modeling with an emphasis on epidemiology for the Learn Bayes Methods Week at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, learnbayes.se/events/gener....

Free to attend but on-site only, learnbayes.se/information/....

There is a great initiative by researchers at KI to teach and learn more about Bayesian methods. This is open to all, inside and outside KI - check it out! Join the email list so you can get the zoom links for seminars by really excellent speakers learnbayes.se #epidemiology #biostatistics