Erik J. Ringen
@err_ring
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Data Scientist (Applied Statistician) at the University of Zurich PhD in Bio-Anth. Behavioral ecology, cultural evolution, statistics & causal inference.
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined January 2018
New blog: If you use observation-level random effects, your predictive checks are probably wrong. Here's how to do it the right way in both #brms and #PyMC tl;dr: you need to sample new levels of the OLRE to avoid a false goodness-of-fit https://t.co/sPD1wl8cnO
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It turns out you can’t teach a decades worth of stats experience/learning in a single semester
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It feels like whenever OLS comes up on this site, one camp is talking about model checking (residuals, predictive plots) and the other about standard errors. Both talk past each other. Onlooks become more confused.
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Mi gente! I'm thrilled to share the first preprint from the Period Biology Study I've started at Dartmouth! Led by amazing PhD student Irma Vlasac, we lay the groundwork for validating self-collected menstrual samples for DNA methylation research. https://t.co/3Ro0l28mHC
medrxiv.org
Menstrual effluent cell profiles have potential as noninvasive biomarkers of female reproductive and gynecological health and disease. We used DNA methylation-based cell type deconvolution (methyla...
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PSA: this no longer works as of cmdstan 2.35.0. A new solution, courtesy of Andrew Johnson: https://t.co/CrOOrN5c4O
discourse.mc-stan.org
If the end goal is a named list where each element is an array of posterior samples for a given variable, you could implement the extract_samples function for cmdstanr and posterior as: extract_sam...
Nice solution from @babeheim: extract_samples <- function(cmdstanrfit) { cmdstanrfit$output_files() |> rstan::read_stan_csv() |> rethinking::extract.samples() }
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Excited to attend for the first time this year!
StanCon is still happening in September. Have you considered the probabilistic dividends? Link in quoted. The keynote speakers will cover everything from disease to drugs to sharks. Bayesian Sharks (doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo)
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I am advertising for a postdoc! You get to do cross-cultural research from the comfort of an office, write a lot of papers, and hang out with me!
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We are hiring! Come join us for a PhD in Computational Language Evolution @ETH in Basel @ETH_BSSE and the National Research Program on Evolving Language @NCCR_Language. We are looking forward to receiving your application
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More evidence of the prior recession. In the old days a high school graduate could afford a fat-tailed, Cauchy(0, 5) prior on a fixed effect. Now they struggle to afford rent on a N(0, 0.5). @rlmcelreath
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Mina came safely and without too much trouble on Saturday! She is beautiful with lots of black hair and her grandmothers eyes. @err_ring and I are overwhelmed with love.
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This short comment from Andrew Gelman on designing experiments is pointed and useful. Love the de-emphasis on power analysis but emphasis on simulating and making hard choices. PDF: https://t.co/xR14EvNEk1
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Three suitcases, a cello, one 28 week fetus, myself, and everything that awaits us ❤️
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OK tell me the singer whose voice is a weighted blanket that you pull up over yourself when you really need a weighted blanket on you.
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With a 🌈 heart, I want to say that this is my first Mother's Day. With the grace of the 🤱🏽 @err_ring & I will welcome our first child in August. Celebrate baby Mina with us and please consider donating to the Academic Mamas Foundation. https://t.co/ugBYg34BCW
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I am an alum of this internship. It's a great bridge into academia for undergrads interested in quant social science and cross-cultural research.
Want to work with us? We're offering a paid internship! Quantitative anthropology grads, apply now. https://t.co/GNg7UpW2Nk
#jobs #internship #yale
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Want to work with us? We're offering a paid internship! Quantitative anthropology grads, apply now. https://t.co/GNg7UpW2Nk
#jobs #internship #yale
hraf.yale.edu
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce a one-year internship in honor of Melvin Ember. Melvin Ember was President of HRAF from 1987 until his death in 2009....
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