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How to Win a Game (or More) of Super Six
Abstract: We use simulation to analyse the family dicing game “Super Six”. In particular we show that the person starting the game has a very high chance of winning the game. Furthermore, a robust strategy to play during the game is to keep throwing the dice regardless of the number of free pits. In a mixed strategy landscape with more than two...
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Tupper’s Self Referential Formula in R
Abstract: We implement Tupper’s self-referencing formula in R. This has been done before by others, but the joy was to be able to learn how to do it yourself using the tidyverse. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The R-markdown source code of this blog is available under a GNU Gene...
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Anthropometric Birthday Cards
Abstract: We visualize children reference populations for height, weight and body mass index by plotting percentiles of the population as a function of age. Besides the epidemiological interest in these anthropometric curves, they have dual-use potential for reproducible birthday cards. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-...
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When Should One Stop Testing Software?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract This is a small note rediscovering a gem published by S. R. Dalal and C. L. Mallows on treating the test of software in a s...
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Right or Wrong? – Validate Numbers Like a Boss
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract How does a statistician ensure that an analysis that comprises of outputting \(N\) results is correct? Can this be done wit...
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Optimal Choice – Mathematical Advice for Real Life
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract We discuss how to choose the optimal candidate from a rankable sequence of candidates arriving one by one. The candidates c...
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Princes Disguised in Uniforms
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract We revisit the secretary problem as a mathematical fairy tale: Princes wooing a princess sequentially arrive each having a ...
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Casting Call for MERS-CoV in Korea, 2015
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract We perform an adjustment for observed-but-not-yet-reported cases (aka. nowcasting) for the epidemic curve of the Middle Eas...
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No Sleep During the Reproducibility Session
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract R code is provided for implementing a statistical method by Nishiura, Miyamatsu, and Mizumoto (2016) to assess when to decl...
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The Olympic Medal Table Visualized Gapminder Style
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from . Abstract Following Hans Rosling’s Gapminder animation style we visualize the total number of medals a country wins during each oly...
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