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Associate prof of biology prof Concordia University. Lost in the wilds between ecology, statistics, and dynamic systems. Always interested in chatting all things GAM- and and nonlinear-system related
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Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem. youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?... So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

it seems pretty clear to me that the country was founded on both inspiring ideals of universal human rights *and* on slavery and genocide. the tension between these two tendencies - sometimes within the very same individuals! - is a main theme of American history a real Land Of Contrasts situation

submitted 42 days ago • 43 comments

I hope anyone cancelling this FT subscription tells them it's because they're trying to reduce their trade deficit with the magazine

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

This post is pure art. Next time I teach shrinkage estimation I'm pointing students to this

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Creating a lecture on mollusc biology for next week, and this comes up in my feed. 🎉 Sometimes the teaching gods smile on us

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Never use a dual Y axis line chart! I made a little playground: You can tweak the axis limits and see how different the graph looks like: www.react-graph-gallery.com/example/dual...

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

submitted 139 days ago • 4 comments

Yes…ha ha ha…YES. Marginal effects are an absolute game changer if you work with even just slightly complicated models. If you haven’t looked into them yet, you may be missing out and making your life harder than it already is!

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

Everyone is running away with this one, but I took the time to trace the source, and these are 80% confidence intervals, the true meta-science story (and there is one!), was written up as one about selective reporting and calibrating standard errors..

submitted 157 days ago • 4 comments

Started out the new year by rereading Ian M. Banks' "Player of Games"; still takes my breath away with how exciting, nuanced, and timeless it is; feels like it could have been written yesterday

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment