Publications by R on Harshvardhan
Malaria Vaccine Coverage
Dynamic GP: Application to Malaria Vaccine Coverage Prediction This is a peer-reviewed book chapter on Malaria vaccines coverage. Ranjan, P and Harshvardhan, M. (2020), “The Evolution of Dynamic Gaussian Process Model with Applications to Malaria Vaccine Coverage Prediction”. Accepted by Springer. Eds: Hanagal, Latpatel, Chandra, and Chandr...
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Forecasting Malaria Vaccine Demand
For preprint of the actual paper, click here. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a Plasmodium, a malarial parasite. Although Malaria is not life-threatening by its nature, it can cause severe illness and prove fatal if left untreated. In February 2019, a new Malaria vaccine, RTS, S — known by the trade name Mos-Quirix — was approv...
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Is COVID-19 Data tampered?
Are COVID-19 numbers reported by countries altered? I test the validity of COVID-19 new daily cases for every country using Benford’s Law. Since the pandemic gained global centre stage, there has been a surge in data manipulation accusations. Independent media agencies questioned country-level data, and all of us made our own conclusions if the...
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Yihui on Blogging and Writing Books
This year, I am participating in useR 2021, the R conference. It is my first conference so I expect to miss out on a few things but still hope to learn as much as I can. I am relatively free for the next week so learning as much as possible from the conference will be my central focus. Sadly, I didn’t realise I had to register for tutorials se...
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Ellsberg’s Paradox
I was reading the book “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” by Jordan Ellenberg. The book introduces a paradox named after Daniel Ellsberg, a young analyst at RAND Corporation and famous for leaking the Pentagon papers to civilians. Von Neumann and Morgenstern had proven that all individuals acted based on certain rules s...
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Supervised Learning Using Baysian Decision Rule
Python Functions for Bayesian Learning (COSC 522 Project) Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R on Harshvardhan. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/da...
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How fast is M1?
I upgraded my laptop to MacBook Air (2020) with the infamous M1 processor a few days ago. I went after the most powerful machine in the category, one with 16 gigabytes of RAM and one terabyte of storage — I didn’t want to regret my choices anytime soon. M1 has been praised for its performance time and again by multiple different agencies. M...
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