Mastodawn

An update on the CRAN Task View on MetaAnalysis https://cran.r-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis which is still slowly growing. It now has more than 200 packages covering a wide range of situations.

#metaanalysis #Rstats

CRAN Task View: Meta-Analysis

This task view covers packages which include facilities for meta-analysis of summary statistics from primary studies. The task view does not consider the meta-analysis of individual participant data (IPD) which can be handled by any of the standard linear modelling functions but it does include some packages which offer special facilities for IPD.

Christian Röver May 12

Digitalcourage May 12

Jetzt steht der Termin: Am Morgen des 21. Mai übergeben wir mehr als 64.000 Unterschriften gegen Digitalzwang vor dem Bundestag.

Mehrere Abgeordnete aus Regierung und Opposition nehmen unsere Petition gemeinsam entgegen. Wir freuen uns sehr, dass das Recht auf ein Leben ohne Digitalzwang damit über Parteigrenzen hinweg ernst genommen wird.

Am Nachmittag des 21. Mai sind wir außerdem zu einem Gespräch über Digitalzwang im Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung eingeladen.

Bis Donnerstag zählt jede weitere Unterschrift!

https://digitalcourage.de/petition-dz

Christian Röver May 12

📢 Registration is open for the GMDS ACADEMY 2027!

👉 https://forms.office.com/e/wuuCBAxn6r

#GMDS

Christian Röver May 6

upcoming online #PHYSTAT seminar:

"Introduction to Copulas" by Lu Yang.
📆 May 13, 16:00 - 17:15 CEST

See here for details:
➡️ https://indico.cern.ch/event/1635555/

PHYSTAT Seminar: Introduction to Copulas

Abstract: It has now been sixty years since the introduction of copulas in 1959 by Sklar in the context of probabilistic metric spaces. Copulas are now a widely used tool in biomedical applications, finance and insurance for understanding relationships among variables whose distribution cannot be approximated by a normal curve. This presentation introduces copulas and shows how they can be used in regression contexts. I will also give a number of examples to illustrate how copulas can be...

Indico

Christian Röver May 5

The R Foundation

May 5

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language.

For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50":

https://blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s-at-50/index.html

S at 50 - The R Blog

Christian Röver May 1

Wolfgang Viechtbauer May 1

A new version (1.6-0) of the metadat package (https://wviechtb.github.io/metadat/) has been released on CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/package=metadat). The package provides over 100 meta-analytic datasets, which are useful for teaching and testing purposes.

#RStats #MetaAnalysis

Meta-Analysis Datasets

A collection of meta-analysis datasets for teaching purposes, illustrating/testing meta-analytic methods, and validating published analyses.

Christian Röver Apr 15

online #PHYSTAT "informal review" event today:

Anja Butter and Mikael Kuusela on "Machine-Learning based Unfolding".
📆 April 15, 3:30pm CEST

See here for details:
➡️ https://indico.cern.ch/event/1553294/

PHYSTAT informal review: Machine-learning based unfolding

This is a PHYSTAT Informal Review event*. Today Anja Butter (physicist) together with Mikael Kuusela (statistician) will review the topic "Machine-learning based unfolding". Agenda: 3.30 pm Opening: 3.30 pm Physicists Presentation (20'+10') 4 pm Statisticians Presentation (20'+10') 4.30 pm General Discussion and Closing (30') Abstract: Unfolding is the problem of inferring parton or particle-level distributions from observations smeared by detector effects. This is a challenging, ill-posed...

Indico

Christian Röver Apr 14

Uni Göttingen Apr 10

Lachen in Krisenzeiten – darum geht es in unserer öffentlichen Ringvorlesung. Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich ein!

Humor bewegt sich in einem Spannungsfeld: Wer darf worüber lachen? Wann verbindet Humor, wann grenzt er aus? Diesen Fragen wollen wir nachgehen.

Wir blicken auf humoristische Formate wie Cartoon, Witz und Meme sowie ihre gesellschaftliche Wirkung. Und Beiträge aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der Wissenschaft treffen hier auf Einblicke aus der Praxis der Humorproduktion.

Ab nächster Woche: Jeden Dienstag um 18:15 Uhr in der Aula am Wilhelmsplatz. Die Vorträge werden im Nachgang als Video und im StadtRadio Göttingen (107,1 MHz) ausgestrahlt.

Mehr Infos und Programm: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/706216.html

#Göttingen #Goettingen

Christian Röver Feb 18

📢 early-bird registration for the #CEN2026 conference ends this week!
See here for more details:
➡️ https://cen2026.org/

#statistics

CEN 2026 | Central European Network Conference

Central European Network Conference 2026 explores the transformative role of data in life sciences under the theme Power of Data – Shaping the Future of Life Sciences. Join researchers and experts in Warsaw to uncover how biometrics, biostatistics, and data-driven innovation are revolutionizing healthcare, medicine, and environmental science. The conference is held on May 18-21, 2026 in Warsaw

Christian Röver Feb 13

📢 Our next #DFG -funded symposium on
"Recent advances in #MetaAnalysis"
will be taking place May 28/29 in Göttingen.
For more details, see here:
➡️ https://medstat.umg.eu/aktuelles/symposium-meta-analysis-2026/
and stay tuned for updates!

#MedStatGoe

location	Göttingen, Germany
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