Jonah’s seminar tomorrow: “Bayesian Workflow and the Software That Shapes It”

2026-05-18

This is Leo. Jonah Gabry (Stan developer, Andrew’s collaborator, etc.) is spending the whole month of May as a visiting professor here with us at the University of Trieste in Italy. Tomorrow, May 19th, in the De Finetti room at … Continue reading → …

MrPlew: Locally Equivalent Weights for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification

2026-05-18

Ryan Giordano, Alice Cima, Jared Murray, Erin Hartman, and Avi Feller write: Multilevel regression and poststratification (MrP) has become a workhorse method for estimating population quantities from non-probability surveys, and is the primary model-based alternative to traditional survey calibration weighting … Continue reading → …

What is “the definition of a professional career”?

2026-05-18

I happened to come across this post from 2015 where I discussed a remark from a political journalist who advocated “some measure of accountability … which allows both that very bad teachers be fired and that very good … Continue reading → …

Five tips for managing your R-universe 🚀

2026-05-18

Introduction

rOpenSci’s
R-universe system is an open source platform allowing users to create their own CRAN-like universe of R packages.
It is absolutely fantastic. It is particularly useful in one area I research, Mendelian randomization (at …

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