I’m into latex. No, not the kinky kind. I am talking about LaTeX, a typesetting system that has been around for more than 30 years. You can use LaTeX to write pretty much any kind of document, and the LaTeX community has contributed countless packages and templates to reduce your workload. These packages and resources can be found at https://ctan.org/.
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In the previous post, we performed simple linear regression of science scores on reading scores from 200 students using ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation. This was done using Python’s Statsmodels package. What does the OLS output show and how should it be interpreted? Here is the figure of the individual subject data and the line of best fit, as well
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Many people learn to write computer code by attending short courses, or learning off supervisors or colleagues, then figure things out as they go. As beginner or novice programmers, it is not always easy to work out whether code is well documented or efficient. So it is nice when more experienced users offer advice on good coding practices. A recent
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Self reflection is important. As a human endeavour with the whole of society as its beneficiary, science should also have introspection; looking in on itself to identify things worth celebrating, as well as things that need improvement. In a recent article, Ioannidis explains why we need meta-research: research on research. Meta-research The goal of meta-research is to understand and improve
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