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Count bounces in table tennis world record

2020-05-11

python curiosity-project

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

rstats pdqr

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

rstats

One approach of using random number generation inside a function without affecting outer state of random generator.

Arguments of stats::density()

2019-08-06

rstats pdqr

Animated illustrations of how arguments affect output of stats::density().

Announcing pdqr

2019-08-01

rstats pdqr

Announcing ‘pdqr’: package for working with custom distribution functions.

Transformers, glue!

2018-08-21

rstats glue

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

rstats tidyverse tweenr

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

rstats comperank comperes

Ranking Harry Potter books with comperank package.

General gems of comperes

2018-05-17

rstats comperes

Examples of exported functions from comperes package that could be useful for general tasks.

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