Archive
Count bounces in table tennis world record
2020-05-11
On May 7th 2020 Daniel Ives set a new world record by continuously bouncing table tennis ball for 5 hours, 21 minutes, and 4 seconds. But how many bounces did he actually make?
Statistical uncertainty with R and pdqr
2019-11-11
CRAN has accepted my ‘pdqr’ package. Here are important examples of how it can be used to describe and evaluate statistical uncertainty.
Local randomness in R
2019-08-13
One approach of using random number generation inside a function without affecting outer state of random generator.
Arguments of stats::density()
2019-08-06
Animated illustrations of how arguments affect output of stats::density().
Announcing pdqr
2019-08-01
Announcing ‘pdqr’: package for working with custom distribution functions.
Transformers, glue!
2018-08-21
General description of transformers functionality in {glue} with some potentially useful examples.
Elo and EloBeta models in snooker
2018-07-03
rstats snooker comperank elobeta
Research about adequacy of Elo based models applied to snooker match results. Contains a novel approach (EloBeta) targeted for sport results with variable “best of N” format.
Animating mode variability with tidyverse and tweenr
2018-06-14
Provided different probability distributions, animate independent sample distributions to demonstrate mode variability. There is a thorough code description with some subtle tips and tricks.
Harry Potter and rankings with comperank
2018-05-31
Ranking Harry Potter books with comperank package.
General gems of comperes
2018-05-17
Examples of exported functions from comperes package that could be useful for general tasks.