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Cristiano Varin

@crisvarin.bsky.social
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Professor of Statistics at Ca' Foscari University (Venice). Jazz Lover.

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Francesco P @franp.bsky.social · 23h
Un'efficace sintesi visual della mia vita.
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SettantasetteOnFilm 🏴‍☠️ @petrolinivideo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#UscivaOggi: open.spotify.com/intl-it/albu...
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Excited to announce our new book "Likelihood and Its Extensions" with Nancy Reid and Grace Y. Yi! An overview of "adjective"-likelihood functions and inference methods for complex models. www.routledge.com/Likelihood-a...
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David Firth @firthstat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
At next week's RSS conference I'll be presenting a poster (a first for me...it's about time!) "Tetraplot displays of UK General Election results" shows how to graph GE 2024 vote shares across 4 parties in a useful way. Full PDF poster at: github.com/DavidFirth/t...
Image of a poster to be presented at the Royal Statistical Society conference in Edinburgh, September 2025.  The main point is to generalize the idea of a ternary plot to handle 4-part compositions, by showing views through the triangular faces of a tetrahedron.  The data shown are vote counts from England, Scotland and Wales in the UK General Election of July 2024.
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David Firth @firthstat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Poster, and #rstats package for drawing tetraplots, are at github.com/DavidFirth/t...
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GitHub - DavidFirth/tplots: R package for making ternary plots and tetraplots
R package for making ternary plots and tetraplots. Contribute to DavidFirth/tplots development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Following the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, we've released a statement of concern. At a time of global economic uncertainty, we stress the importance of the independence of statistical institutions and the protection of the integrity of official statistics.
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A statement from the Royal Statistical Society on the dismissal of the Commissioner of Labor Statis
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 20/07/2025
Last book I read was the eminently enjoyable "Three Shades of Blue" by James Kaplan. Been years since I read a Miles biography sonice to get back to all this--with superb related context about all this jazz. And #chicago folks: This Friday Fitzgeralds in Forest Park has a 'Kind of Blue' tribute.
Cover of the book "Three Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the lost empire of cool" by James Kaplan with a cool nightime picture of a dressed-to-the-nines Miles Davis smoking under a streetlight.
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Nina @nina-75.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025)
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My first jazz listening! was among my dad's records, the only jazz in his collection. Blue 7 still gives me the shivers today
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I am very happy to share our new paper "Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects" with Ruggero Bellio, Swarnadip Ghosh and Art Owen. Thrilled that the paper will be published in the prestigious Biometrika academic.oup.com/biomet/artic...
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Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects
Abstract. Estimation of crossed random effects models commonly requires computational costs that grow faster than linearly in the sample size N, often as f
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Il nostro paese, negli ultimi anni, ha fatto grandi passi avanti, peccato che tutti gli altri vanno in macchina."
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Matteo Bordone @matteobordone.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ah, muoiono più donne? Ma dai!
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 12/05/2025
Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
On this date. Richard Feynman born 1918 in New York. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
One of my favourite #ggplot tricks is wrapping long axis labels so they don't take up so much space on your chart Image 1 - Without wrapping Image 2 - With wrapping Image 3 - Code #rstats
A graph with rodent names on the y-axis, where the labels are all on one lineA graph with rodent names on the y-axis, where the longer labels are spread over two linesR code used to generate the graph with the labels spread over two lines

msleep |>
  filter(order == "Soricomorpha") |> 
  ggplot(aes(x = sleep_total, y = name)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_y_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width = 18)) +
  theme_bw()
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𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐡𝐞𝟗𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 ≇ @topofthe9ines.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Miles Davis, backstage at Shrine Auditorium, 1950
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
lol who did this
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Libertà!
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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#rstats folks: If you have a habit of updating your library after an R upgrade by copying the old one and run update.packages(). --> DON'T DO THAT <-- Especially not with 4.5.0. You will overwrite base packages with ones from a previous version and as these are not on CRAN, things go bad.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 24/04/2025
The Economist is into counting remaining days too:
This week's cover of The Economist with a tile 'Only 1361 Days To Go' atop a sketch of a badly bruised and bandaged eagle.
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Great to hear that 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 has been accepted into Scopus!! An excellent new journal, worth checking out! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @amstatnews.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/uds...
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The consummate bassist Paul Chambers was born 90 years ago on this day April 22, 1935. In the late-1950s Mr. P.C. made 3 excellent Blue Note leader dates including "Bass On Top" featuring Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell & Art Taylor. Listen & get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition bluenote.lnk.to/PaulChambers...
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How I wish I could go back in time to listen to you play live!
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Earlier this year, our climate change task force published a guide to official UK climate stats Here, task force member Paul Allin writes for @rmets.org ts.org on what to expect from the guide—and why reliable and relevant data is key to tackling climate change @andygarrett.bsky.social
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Navigating climate change statistics
Climate change is one of greatest challenges of our time and having the right data — accessible to all of us — is a must. Luckily the Royal Statistical Society has created a guide to key climate chang...
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.
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Matteo Bordone @matteobordone.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bella puntata di Presa Diretta. Tra le altre cose si parla anche di paradisi fiscali. Vorrei ricordare che non esiste l’espressione paradisi fiscali se non in italiano, perché è un errore di traduzione. Heaven/Haven (hevn, heivn) sono due parole diverse: paradiso e rifugio.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer.
Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact.
A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmbo, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US.
"American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers,
" said Qi.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025
NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Another great statistics event at Ca' Foscari! On 28 April, Alan Agresti will talk about the evolution of statistics in textbooks, from pioneering contributions of Fisher and Neyman to the era of data science. The seminar will take place in the magnificent Ca’ Foscari’s 15th-century Gothic palace.
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Ilaria Prosdocimi @ilapros.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Exciting news! In June we will host a course on GAMs with R taught by Simon Wood, the author of mgcv! This is a great opportunity to learn about flexible statistical modelling! All info at www.unive.it/gamswithr
Information on the course (as per webpage)QR code - link to registration available in webpage
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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