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The World's collective disaster memory must be preserved

EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is a widely used and trusted database for tracking natural and tech disasters. It is now at risk of termination due to the absence of sustainable funding. If this concerns you, please sign this open letter: openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

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Very excited to announce that the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al publishes in June! routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

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If you are teaching #StructuralEquationModels, consider this excellent new #textbook by Philip Wood. It shows the power of these models through careful model selection and robust assumption checking. It will enable you to build reliable #SEMs. Order a review copy: www.routledge.com/textbooks/ev...

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Very excited to finally see the second edition of Jennison and Turnbull's 'Group #Sequential and #Adaptive Methods for #ClinicalTrials' finally published. It has been a long time coming, and it's a substantial revision of a classic book in the field. www.routledge.com/Group-Sequen...

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This #WorldCancerDay, discover how childhood cancer survivors navigate their teenage years. New research explores the unique challenges and resilience of young cancer survivors as they grow into adolescence: spr.ly/63329hGe1t

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Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

๐Ÿ“˜ New book out soon !

Iโ€™m excited to share that ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐€๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž-๐‘๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‡๐ข๐๐๐ž๐ง ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐จ๐ฏ ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ: ๐“๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐‘ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ˆ๐Œ๐๐‹๐„ is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press

Hope itโ€™s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners

#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

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ASAโ€™s Ron Wasserstein shares exciting news from ASA headquartersโ€”new titles in the ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society have arrived! Watch his video to learn more and then explore these books that show how statistics shapes our world: tinyurl.com/4psncp6b

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If you're going to #JSM2025 in Nashville next month, please join us for a mixer in our exhibit hall booth on Tuesday Aug 5. Your chance to meet some of our journal editors and book authors! ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ“– @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Getting very excited about #JSM2025 in Nashville next month. We will have a big display of shiny new #Statistics and #DataScience books there. Take a sneak peek or order online here: www.routledge.com/go/JSM. Get in touch if you are interested in meeting to discuss books! @amstatnews.bsky.social

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Thanks to @robcalver.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for your support and for the collaboration throughout the process. Itโ€™s been a rewarding experience, and I appreciate the care and professionalism you brought to every step. Looking forward to what comes next!

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๐Ÿ“ข My book, โ€œHealth Metrics and the Spread of Infectious Diseasesโ€, is online!

๐Ÿ“–โœจ Dive into the world of DALYs, YLLs, forecasting, and data-driven public health insights.

#PublicHealth #HealthMetrics #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases

๐Ÿ”— bookdown.org/fede_gazzell...

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Excited to see '#Python for #Mathematics' by @drvinceknight publish later this month from @CRC_MathStats. The book has the reader using and understanding the tools that are going to be helpful to them as mathematicians. routledge.com/Python-for-M...

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Check out 'Seminal Ideas and Controversies in #Statistics' by Rod Little. A very interesting book, covering some of the most important papers published in the field, with Rod's personal view on them. I think it could spark a debate! routledge.com/Seminal-Idea... #DataScience

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In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has terminated more than $2 billion in federal grants. @umich.edu research professor Brady Thomas West explains how merit-based #NIH funding works โˆ’ and what it means to suddenly lose a grant: buff.ly/TGzClnB
#EDsky ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿฉบ

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A Michigan research professor explains how NIH funding works โˆ’ and what it means to suddenly lose a grant President Trumpโ€™s sudden cuts to hard-won federal grants are disrupting research and forcing scientists to face difficult choices.

Chasing NIH grants is like fighting for the last slice of cake at a research potluck. @bradytwest.bsky.social from @um-src.bsky.social nails the stress and stakes of soft-money work. If you care about public health research, read this.

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Excited to share that I'm working on a book: 'Statistical Methods in #SportsAnalytics'! This is the culmination of my education, research, and experience in teaching #statisticalthinking and modeling in #sportsanalytics! Thanks to @robcalver.bsky.social and Chapman & Hall/CRC for the opportunity!

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We're delighted to present the cover of the new book "Bayesian Meta-Analysis: a practical introduction", by Robert Grant & Gian Luca Di Tanna, which will be released by CRC Press in June 2025!

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This book fills a gap, making Bayesian meta-analysis accessible to researchers across disciplines.

It introduces seven software options:
BUGS
JAGS
Stan
Stata
JASP
bayesmeta
brms

...so that you can decide which one is right for your work.

Follow this account for weekly updates, code, and tips!

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Front cover of Applied Survey Data Analysis, Third Edition

Front cover of Applied Survey Data Analysis, Third Edition

The third edition of this classic textbook on 'Applied #Survey #DataAnalysis' by Brady West, Steve Heeringa, and Pat Berglund is coming in March! routledge.com/Applied-Surv... #RStats #DataScience #Statistics #Sampling

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Book cover of the book 'Exploring complex survey data analysis using R', showing a light blue background with a hand-drawn map showing mountains, houses, roads and the sea.

Book cover of the book 'Exploring complex survey data analysis using R', showing a light blue background with a hand-drawn map showing mountains, houses, roads and the sea.

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

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Decided it was time to set myself up over here. I am a publisher of #books on #Statistics and #DataScience at Chapman & Hall/CRC, an imprint of @tandfresearch.bsky.social. If you are interested in finding out about our books, please give me a follow. Follow back guaranteed! #RStats

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