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Lara

@laracrc.bsky.social
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Editor for #Statistics, #RStats and #DataScience books at Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. The usual caveats apply, views are my own. www.routledge.com/statistics

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UCL Department of Statistical Science @statisticsucl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Prof. Terry Soo arranged a re-union of present and past Heads for the Department of Statistical Science. Epic picture!
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Måns Thulin @mansthulin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking for a book that covers both statistics and R programming? Check out my book Modern Statistics with R! Coding, visualisation, regression, ML & more. 📖 Read it for free: www.modernstatisticswithr.com 📚 Get printed copies: tinyurl.com/mswrbook #Rstats #statistics #datascience #machinelearning
Modern Statistics with R - the author holding the book
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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Working with spatial data in R? The terra cheat sheet is a quick reference for raster/vector operations, projections, plotting, and more. Check it at rspatial.org/_static/terra_cheatshe… #rstats #GISchat #rspatial
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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 24/08/2026
Off to #ESAWarsaw2026. Boat ride from Helsinki to Tallinn done, now on the train to Vilnius. Tomorrow the final train to Warsaw! Good thing I brought something to pass the time with. #statssky
Bayesian Workflow by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath et al. on a train from Valga to Riga.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Interested in narrative data visualisation? We're looking for a PhD candidate to join our team at the Center for Digital Narrative, with me and @lauragarrison.bsky.social as supervisors. Apply by 30 August! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Mapped: % of US-born adults, by PUMA (~100k-200k people), born in their current state of residence. Lots to unpack in this one. Explore the interactive map: walker-data.com/maps/born-in... For those so inclined, the source code is here: gist.github.com/walkerke/875...
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Look! The @tandfresearch.bsky.social stand is ready for #JSM26 tomorrow. Literally the best stand in the Expo so a must-visit if you’re there!
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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Live shot of me buying a hard copy of @vincentab.bsky.social’s new book (see hand on pink book near bookshelf) 😂
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Osvaldo Martin @aloctavodia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Look what was waiting on my desk this morning! It's so great to finally see #BayesianWorkflow in print.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I see now we missed an opportunity by not entitling our book "Bayesian Odyssey" instead of "Bayesian Workflow". The priors are polytropic! Still all the case studies are online avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (and python translations arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor...) for your adventure
screenshot of case study chapter 22, black cat adoptions
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...
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Ihaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets Code
YouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Nominations are now open for the Rousseeuw Prize, the most prestigious in Statistics. Akin to Fields Medal Prize: $1 million! Deadline: Feb 26 Categories for 2026: 🔵computational statistics & data science 🔵statistics in physical sciences 🔵statistics in economics & humanities rousseeuwprize.org
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats
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How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie
The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Some 15 years ago my colleague Parry Clarke said to me, "Dude stop complaining and write your own stats book!" So I did. It definitely changed my life, and I'm glad it has had a positive impact on others.
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Since 2013, “Stats + Stories” has explored the stats behind the stories & the stories behind the stats—from sports to pop culture, health, and more. The podcast was recently featured in “Behind the Mic: Meet the Minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ Podcast.” tinyurl.com/39nbf82d @johnbailer.bsky.social
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Behind the mic: Meet the minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ podcast
After nearly 400 episodes, “Stats + Stories” has become a podcast where statisticians, journalists and the curious can listen in to make sense of the world around them.
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Dirac's equation, quantum electrodynamics, atomic and molecular structure @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Can you guess the UK city just from the streets, the buildings, and the contours? 📊 #RStats #DataViz
A map of all the buildings in a UK city centre cropped into a circle. There are lots of large buildings in the centre with a gap in the north east.A map of all the elevation in a UK city centre cropped into a circle.A map of all the streets in a UK city centre cropped into a circle. There are lots of densely packed streets, with a gap running south west to north east.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...
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My year in data visualisation – Nicola Rennie
A round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions.
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Alexandre Médina @a-lex-map.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The editor of the ASA’s journal "Statistics and Data Science in Imaging" invites submissions for a special issue on spatial statistics in imaging with the support of the ASA Statistics and the Environment and Statistics in Epidemiology sections. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...
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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 17/11/2025
🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)! I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability. More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users... #RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In honour of today being the second-most-popular day to be birthed, here's my second-favourite birthday distribution chart
Line chart showing daily births. September 26th has the highest number, December 25th and 26th have the lowest. Source: ONS births in England and Wales data
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Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Lovely to see all the books from the series💚 @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @johnbailer.bsky.social
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.
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Cédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees
Bump chart faceted by world regions showing the top countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection. Asia and Africa rank consistently high, driven by long-term crises such as Afghanistan and Sudan. The Americas and Europe also appear high due to more recent crises in Venezuela and Ukraine.
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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My personal library's looking healthy 😁
collection of #rstats and #rspatial books
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UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
September is #GynaecologicalCancerAwarenessMonth. #OvarianCancer is the most devastating gynaecological cancer in the UK. The UKCTOCS trial involved over 200,000 women to explore if screening could save lives, but it wasn’t without challenges. 🎧 Discover the insights in this #TrialTalk episode:
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Lessons from UKCTOCS, a large-scale trial in ovarian cancer screening
UKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening) is one of the largest screening trials in ovarian cancer. More than 200,000 women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in it,
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I'm really looking forward to this session! Some of the things I'll be talking about include: 📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub ✍️ Working with @laracrc.bsky.social at CRC Press 📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts! #StatsEd #DataViz
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
At @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thu 4 Sep - which I'm really excited about! (Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!) #StatsEd #RSS2025Conf
Screenshot of slides showing my first and a more recent TidyTuesday visualisation
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For this week's #TidyTuesday data about Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones, I decided to make a sheet music-themed chart 📊 - that will probably manage to annoy #DataViz people as much as music people! 🎶 Thanks to @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating the data! #RStats #ggplot2
Chart styled to look like sheet music showing the happiness scores of funk and soul songs, by male/female/mixed songwriting teams. A cluster of happy songs by male songwriters is seen in the mid-1970s.
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John Bailer @johnbailer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Just in time for the start of a new school year - a podcast discussion of evaluating student success. Also check out other Stats+Stories education-related #podcast episodes #EduSky statsandstories.net/education
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Education — Stats + Stories
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
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Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie
This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
CRAN: "thanks, package heplots_1.7.8.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN!" Added a distancePlot(), a very nice diagnostic plot for multivariate linear models.Shows leverage & outliers together in a way that shows both problems. See: friendly.github.io/heplots/
For a multivariate regression model, this is a plot of Mahalanobis distances of the predictor variables (~ leverage) against Mahalanobis distances of the residuals (large -> outliers)
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Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky
Book cover of Spatial Linear Models for Enviornmental Data, dark blue background with white pattern with a picture of caribou and data plots
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Taylor 🐿️ & Francis 🦔 are enjoying hanging out at their booth at #MathFest2025! @joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025
📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria. Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science. 🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas @tandfresearch.bsky.social #mathart #tessellations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) instats.org/seminar/nsfa...
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NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) taught by American Statistical Association will help you take your research to the next leve...
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📣 Call for discussion papers We are inviting submissions of papers on the innovative usages of causal natural experiments in statistics and data science 📆 Submit your abstract by 6 June rss.org.uk/news-publica...
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @EdinbR.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy event! 📅 Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM 📍 2.11 Appleton Tower, Edinburgh ❔ Interactive charts (me!) 📊, and fast Bayesian inference (Jordan Richards) Register: www.meetup.com/edinbr/event... #RStats #DataViz
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May 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference, Thu, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
\* Title: May 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference \* Date: Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM \* Location: 2.11 Appleton Tower (https://www.accessable.c
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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 12/05/2025
Curator: @libbyheeren.bsky.social @dslc.io welcomes you to week 19 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Seismic Events at Mount Vesuvius! 📂 tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-13 🗞️ www.ingv.it/somma-vesuvio #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash.TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

 How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.Map of Mount Vesuvius region from the GOSSIP website showing seismic activity. The map displays numerous colored dots concentrated mainly on the volcano, with red and orange circles indicating more recent events clustered around the crater area. Green circles represent older seismic events, while yellow triangles mark monitoring stations surrounding the volcano. The larger the circles, the stronger the seismic activity.
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Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you are at #SDSS2025 this week, please stop by and check out this collection of our fabulous (if I say so myself) books and journals @amstatnews.bsky.social @paulnaish.bsky.social #rstats #datascience
Table display with books and journals
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Symmetry classification and enumeration of square-tile sikku kolams www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We had a great time with @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social and R-Ladies RTP discussing "Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data with #RStats"! Recording is here: youtu.be/ip78qoxoZGc?... Interested in more? We're presenting a workshop at useR! Register here: user2025.r-project.org
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R-Ladies RTP (English) - Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data in R
YouTube video by R-Ladies Global
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In celebration of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, the "Practical Significance" podcast is featuring a special guest: Claire Bowen from the Urban Institute, who shares her journey into the world of statistics. magazine.amstat.org/podcast-2/
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Do you work in UK health and care analytics using data to deliver better outcomes for patients? Why not enter our Florence Nightingale Award supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social Enter by 30 April: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
CHANCE, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2025) @amstatnews.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Book Review: Nonparametric Statistical Methods Using R, 2nd ed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nonparametric Statistical Methods Using R, 2nd ed.
Published in The American Statistician (Just accepted, 2025)
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