Yup, great book! Although I never read everything. And, yea, navigating condescending spaces is always a big challenge.

Indeed, it should! I guess it is just like other things: ppl have their established way of working and feel uncomfortable about learning something “technical” (and new), no time, other priorities, etc. That is why students should be encouraged; that is the “perfect” time to do so.

The more and more I talk to people I realize: Git is one of the best things ever invented, and we should always encourage everyone in research who uses a computer, especially students, to adopt it

Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

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Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.

Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

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

Not me jumping on a plane and crossing an ocean, hoping to work on such stuff

Our paper is out in JEBS! "Beyond Average Scores: Identification of Consistent and Inconsistent Academic Achievement in Grouping Units" is the first paper of my PhD research, and it has finally been published.
doi.org/10.3102/1076...

Back in Brasil after 3 years, the feeling:

Living abroad is good, but it sucks. Living in Brasil sucks, but it's good.

Bluesky screenshot: Valhalla & Oates @joelpust.bsky.social Follow Sign up to defend academic freedom. Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com. 6h Bluesky Elder Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university's recent hiring of a philosopher owing to his "race science" writings. Other scholars are circulating a defense of the philosopher's academic freedom.

Marginalizing scientific racists like Cofnas is entirely consistent with academic freedom. See section 5: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/

if anyone else has papers or projects that use rix, please let me know! in open source, people open issues to tell you when things don't work (which is fine) but sometimes, getting positive feedback is nice as well :D

Towards more reliable research: Today, together with @bihatcharite.bsky.social, we welcomed the 2025 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners: @simine.com, Maximilian Sprang, and the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative @redebrrepro.bsky.social. A recording will be available soon.

Do you struggle with missing data in your statistical analyses? Come join our Summer School "Solving Missing Data Problems in R"! We will tell you when you can safely use complete case analysis, and when more dedicated strategies are required!

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Covariate-adjusted statistical dependence representation through partial copulas: bounds and new insights In this paper, we revisit the notion of partial copula, originally introduced to test conditional independence, highlighting its capability to represent the dependence between two random variables aft...

Normally, I don't share preprints, but this one originated out of a special friendship: arxiv.org/abs/2603.10941

Vinícius and I never met in person. We just happened to share an interest in copulas and causal inf. This preprint is the product of almost weekly meetings talking about such stuff.

Israel just attacked a university in Beirut, Lebanon, killing a dean and a researcher. Like it did in Gaza, where it systematically bombed all universities.

I didn’t know you were here! 😅

Getting the same results (~ 0.001/3 difference) in R of a simulation done in SAS around 1998 is probably the biggest achievement of my life so far

Tbh, this takes me back to 4 years ago when I was doing my masters in psych and reading such cases in blogs/books (e.g., 7 deadly sins of psych)

This one is new to me. The answers/replies to the questions are even more intriguing

Yup, github.com/felipelfv/co...

Please, let me know if you see any issues!

I wonder what created that 0.0001 difference

Also, reproducible through rix @brodriguesco.bsky.social

Covariate-adjusted statistical dependence representation through partial copulas: bounds and new insights In this paper, we revisit the notion of partial copula, originally introduced to test conditional independence, highlighting its capability to represent the dependence between two random variables aft...

Normally, I don't share preprints, but this one originated out of a special friendship: arxiv.org/abs/2603.10941

Vinícius and I never met in person. We just happened to share an interest in copulas and causal inf. This preprint is the product of almost weekly meetings talking about such stuff.

Vin\'icius Litvinoff Justus, Felipe Fontana Vieira: Covariate-adjusted statistical dependence representation through partial copulas: bounds and new insights https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.10941 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.10941

Literally this morning, my gf: If you hadn't breathed so loud, I wouldn't have had a nightmare.

Fair 😆. The ones I just looked up:

- Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation (..) part 1, 2, and 3
- ML - Cramer Rao Lower Bound Intuition
- Least squares as ML estimator (two videos)

Matrix calculus sucks

Ben Lambert has some short videos!