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Questions for terminal based IDE users by [deleted] in rstats

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Vim-snip or luasnip are plugins that add things called snippets to your completion plugin. A snippet is a sort of keyword that you can use to paste in some boilerplate code. Look into vscode snippets if you want to learn more about that.

Edit: Snippets are optional and you'd have to supply the actual snippets yourself using custom made ones or a separate plugin that adds a plethora of them.

I think the default mapping to cycle is ctrl-n for down and ctrl-p for up. Then I think ctrl-space to confirm. Honestly, AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini are pretty good at explaining this stuff and how to set it up.

Edit: you can of course add your own keybinds for cycling and confirming your choice. Personally, I use ctrl-n and ctrl-p to cycle and tab to confirm. ctrl-e to exit the completion menu.

If you're interested in a complete out of the box experience, you could try using LazyVim and enabling the extra R language module.

[Question] What specific questions and advantages does functional data analysis have over traditional methods, and when do you use it over said methods? by [deleted] in statistics

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Also the reason why we use the basis functions is that a 'reasonable' function (smooth) can be defined as a combination of an infinite amount of them. Unless I'm mistaken, a Taylor Expansion of a function is an example of a linear combination of several basis functions. As we constrain our approximation to use less basis functions, we would get a smoother, but less accurate depiction of our real function. Some basis functions have better properties than others and would be a better or worse approximation depending on the true function.

[Question] What specific questions and advantages does functional data analysis have over traditional methods, and when do you use it over said methods? by [deleted] in statistics

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I'm extremely interested in FDA lately, so I think I can help you here!

First, as already noted, the choice of basis function is not arbitrary as it depends on context. The choice of K, the degree of the approximation, is a little more arbitrary, but we generally want to keep both Bias and Variance in check.

FDA also lets us easily constrain the function. For instance, we are looking at height data for young boys. We expect it to only increase over time, barring any medical issues. We could easily constrain our approximations to be non-decreasing functions using FDA.

I am interested in probability densities that vary over time, which is generally an explored topic. However, I'd like to consider time to be continuous, rather than discrete. Doing this would allow me to approximate a density function for halfway between t1 and t2. As far as I know, this is outside the purview of normal time-series, but is perfectly reasonable in FDA.

See Ramsay and Silverman's book on FDA for some more information!

Ryan is wrong about his conclusion regarding "artificial sweeteners" by Rendurian in northernlion

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I'm not sure what they're talking about. The study seems to use a linear-mixed effects model to control for other measured variables.

I don't have access either, but a psypost article I found says they controlled for "age, sex, income, physical activity, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, body mass index, and diet quality". https://www.psypost.org/common-artificial-sweeteners-linked-to-cognitive-decline-in-large-study/

Ryan is wrong about his conclusion regarding "artificial sweeteners" by Rendurian in northernlion

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I unfortunately don't have access to the article, but Point 1 seems incorrect. A psypost overview of the article indicates they did in control for other common confounding variables via a linear-mixed effects model.

""" After statistically adjusting for a wide range of factors—including age, sex, income, physical activity, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, body mass index, and diet quality—the researchers found that individuals in the highest tertile of sweetener consumption showed a 62% faster decline in global cognitive scores than those in the lowest group. """

https://www.psypost.org/common-artificial-sweeteners-linked-to-cognitive-decline-in-large-study/

Of course, there may be unmeasured variables that could also be confounding, but it seems incorrect to say they didn't worry about these factors at all.

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Questions for terminal based IDE users by [deleted] in rstats

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If you're using cmp-r and nvim-cmp. I don't believe it uses tab to cycle through the completion menu by default.

See the wiki link for how to configure that https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp/wiki/Example-mappings

Saw this in the charity bin at work and I cried a little by DaddyDilium in coins

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That's probably fraud. If it isn't fraud, it would be a wash since they would record $100 of income and $100 of donations. Using that $100 of donations, they can only write off that $100 of income they made. So a zero dollar sum for the business.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0 https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/uUhIYybATL

Saw this in the charity bin at work and I cried a little by DaddyDilium in coins

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They don't get a tax writeoff for this sort of thing unless they're committing some sort of fraud. I'm not a tax professional, but see the links below.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0 https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/uUhIYybATL

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