Publications by Gianluca Baio
How to be Bayesian and spare yourself a dreadful afternoon with your stupid football team losing the derby
Yesterday was the second-last game of the Italian Serie A; I’ve been a Sampdoria supported since I was 12 $-$ at that time, they were starting to become one of the best clubs in Serie A (and that was back in the 80’s when Serie A was arguably the best league in the world), although they hadn’t won anything and didn’t have prospects for t...
5908 sym 8 img
How to be Bayesian and spare yourself a dreadful afternoon with your stupid football team losing the derby
Yesterday was the second-last game of the Italian Serie A; I’ve been a Sampdoria supported since I was 12 $-$ at that time, they were starting to become one of the best clubs in Serie A (and that was back in the 80’s when Serie A was arguably the best league in the world), although they hadn’t won anything and didn’t have prospects for t...
5893 sym 8 img
BCEA 2.2-3 is out
I think the newest release of BCEA, our R package to standardise and post-process the output of a health economic model, is now available from CRAN $-$ in fact, the source code is also available here. The package is rather stable, so the changes aren’t many, but the few ones are quite substantial, I think. In particular, we’ve now modified...
2197 sym
BCEA 2.2-3 is out
I think the newest release of BCEA, our R package to standardise and post-process the output of a health economic model, is now available from CRAN $-$ in fact, the source code is also available here. The package is rather stable, so the changes aren’t many, but the few ones are quite substantial, I think. In particular, we’ve now modified...
2197 sym
Finish line (nearly)
We are very close to the finish line $-$ that’s being able to finally submit the BCEA book to the editor (Springer).This has been a rather long journey, but I think the current version (I dread using the word “final” just yet…) is very good, I think. We’ve managed to respond to all the reviewers’ comments, which to be fair were rather...
3335 sym 2 img
Finish line (nearly)
We are very close to the finish line $-$ that’s being able to finally submit the BCEA book to the editor (Springer).This has been a rather long journey, but I think the current version (I dread using the word “final” just yet…) is very good, I think. We’ve managed to respond to all the reviewers’ comments, which to be fair were rather...
3335 sym 2 img
Shiny happy people in the land of the Czar
During the summer, we’ve worked silently but relentlessly to set up a departmental server that could run R-Shiny applications. There’s a bunch of us in the department doing work on R and producing packages and so we thought it’d be a good idea to disseminate our research. Which is just as well, as I’ve been nominated “2020 REF Impact C...
2542 sym 2 img
Nomen omen
After resisting this for way too long, I’ve finally decided it was time to release more widely a couple of the R packages I’ve been working on $-$ I’ve put them on GitHub, hence the mug…In both cases, while I think the packages do work nicely, I am still not sure they are ready for an official release on CRAN $-$ effectively, this is mai...
1768 sym 2 img
New year resolution
Now that the Christmas break is just a distant memory (Marta would say that I am quite happy with that $-$ she thinks I’m like the Grinch around the Christmas holiday. And she is right), I’ve given way to my new year’s resolution of finally, properly packaging our two R packages that aren’t on CRAN yet.The first one is SWSamp (about whi...
2134 sym R (188 sym/1 pcs) 2 img
Coming soon!
We’ve just received a picture of the cover of the BCEA book, which is really, really close to being finally published!I did mention this in a few other posts (for example here and here) and it has been in fact a rather long process, so much so that I have made a point of joking in my talks about BCEA that we’d be publishing the book in 2036 ...
1529 sym 2 img