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The "Face" of Family: A Forensic Deep Dive 🧬📐
I’m often asked: "One is my mother, the other two are my aunts. How can you be sure?" As a data nerd, "vibes" aren't enough. I ran a multi-modal biometric analysis using Facial Anthropometry and Unsupervised Machine Learning to prove the kinship. This isn't just about looking alike; it’s about the underlying mathematical architecture of the human skull and soft tissue. Let’s look at the math. 🧵👇 #BioStats #Forensics
New blog post out!
Power analysis – A flexible simulation approach using R
https://www.nicolaromano.net/data-thoughts/power-analysis-simulation/
I go through why power matters, how to use Monte Carlo simulations to estimate it, and how this approach can be useful not only to define sample size, but also to refine experimental design.
#rstats #statistics #biostats #datascience #experimentaldesign #poweranalysis
A milestone! FDA expands accepted R file formats, resulting directly from joint work between industry and FDA through the R Consortium Submissions Working Group.
FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages
Newly accepted formats for R packages now include:
.rds, .rdb, .rdx, .rdata / .rda
.md, .rd
Expanded use of .zip and .html for delivering full R packages.
Details: https://r-consortium.org/posts/expanded-fda-ectd-file-format-support-for-r-packages
#rpharma #fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials #biostats #opensource
@arjen What's sad is that they think they'll keep their place in the #Big10 and get back into the #AAU with this cut. "We have a #biostats department at UNMC" -- well, yeah, but biostatisticians don't design ag field experiments, or specialize in data visualization (our department has 2 #datavis researchers), or teach consulting, and they probably don't have extra time to support a #datascience program.
It's very short sighted.
Wondering if I should start doing #biostats consulting work again...
I'd have to spin up a website and probably order some business cards again. More importantly, I would need to find an angle to work.
I previously focused on statistics for life science research and healthcare, basically learned everything is driven by regulatory compliance... which is fine and dandy, but I feel like there's something more I can be doing with my skills (and not working for a fucking insurance company). Hmm.
Here’s the setting - we have a retrospective dataset of patients undergoing a certain surgery. The surgery has two variants, let’s call them A and B. We are interested in comparing a set of outcomes like length of hospital stay and blood loss in each variant. The choice of variant is based on clinical judgement and thus there are inevitable selection effects biasing the comparison. If that was all, we’d have little options beyond just reporting the results descriptively. We however have an extr...
Looking for #bioinformatics,#biostats, #ecology, #popgen, #fishbiology jobs or postdocs in the Calgary, AB (Canada) region. I'm well versed in popgen, genome assemblies, bioinformatics, workflow design, fish ecology, Bash, R, Python, Julia. Does anyone have or know of any leads? Thanks!
CV: https://pdimens.github.io/CV_Dimens.pdf
Website: https://pdimens.github.io
Dr. Folke Bernadotte 🇪🇺
Nicola Romanò
R Consortium
Susan Vanderplas
Paul Sochacki
Martin Modrák
Skye & Soil
stjuderesearch
Mr . Dimensions (Pavel Dimens)
Amit Chowdhry, MD, PhD