Blog
Notes and updates on statistics, infectious disease modeling, and other miscellaneous topics.
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Hierarchical Time Series with hts
The mission is to reproduce the figures in the following article: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hts/vignettes/hts.pdf This is important to understand in regard to how to format the data. Use a bottom’s up forcasting...
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Replicating gsynth
Synthethic methods are a method of causal inference that seeks to combine traditional difference-in-difference types studies with time series cross sectional differences with factor analysis for uncontrolled/ unobserved measures. This...
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the power of fake data simulations
This post is basically a self exercise of what Andrew Gelman has already posted here . Fake data simulations are incredible tools to understand your study. It forces you to...
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models of microeconomics
I just wanted to explore a little more some of the topics covered in the fantastic Applied Econometrics with R . All of these examples come from their text in...
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a foray into network analysis
This post takes the example provided in Kosuke Imai’s Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction . It provides some exploration of network analysis through looking at the florentine dataset which counts...
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Analysis of Short Time Series
I enjoy reading Rob Hyndman’s blog. The other day he did some analysis of a short times series. More about that is available at his blog here . The neat...
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make your own api
An API is an application programming interface. It is basically a set of instructions for interfacing with a server. When working with web data you don’t need to render an...
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Forecasting Benchmarks
Look at this: https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/benchmark-combination/
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IRT and the Rasch Model
I am inspired by the blog post completed by the team at stitchfix (see details here ) regarding using item response theory for “latent size.” It is a neat approach....
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Exploring forecast
Time series forecasting is interesting. I want to write more, but not right now. I’m just going to lay out a few functions for explanation later. I am going to...