Roland Rau

Whatever I find interesting, mainly related to demography, statistics, computers, sports. Enjoy!

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

At the Annual Meeting of the German Demographic Society: Andreas Edel of @PopulationEU @MPIDRnews remembering Jim Vaupel. Sorely missed!

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

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[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@amvillegasr presenting at the Living to 100 conference of the @SocietyofA. This time on decomposimg mortality trends. Excellent work, as usual.

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Watched less than 9min so far but I am deeply impressed: https://t.co/fGYJBxal8u
The Continuity of Splines by @FreyaHolmer Can't wait to see the rest! Wow... hard to tell whether the production value is better than the content or vice versa. As usual: discovered @hackernews 👍

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Extremely useful. Thanks, @theHauer and @kbguzzo Liked and retweeted so I can find easily again in the future. #PublicBookmark 😀

[Matt Hauer @theHauer]

I shared a list of Sociology/Demography journals that accept Research Notes. @kbguzzo suggested I create an editable google sheet. Here it is! https://t.co/U6Vv9rfhqy

[Matt Hauer @theHauer]

I shared a list of Sociology/Demography journals that accept Research Notes. @kbguzzo suggested I create an editable google sheet. Here it is! https://t.co/U6Vv9rfhqy

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Exciting news, at least for all (?) of us using Emacs. Emacs 29 will soon be released with native access to SQLite databases & much more. Give it a try instead of using different programs for #rstats, LaTeX documents, ...
https://t.co/JzLKkmFVhT
https://t.co/f6HwqhLvh6
#Emacs

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Interesting.... it probably does not make much of a difference but why not more recent data (instead of until 2012 or 2014)?

[Siddartha Aradhya @AradhyaSidd]

Check out our new study on maternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery! 👇🏾 @alice_goisis @BarclayKieron

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

World Champion! Twice! Not me, not soccer. But for my buddy from high school who is raising pigeons.
🕊
https://t.co/KgweE5hrn8

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Question at https://t.co/oE9COO2kUO
Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Too many good reading suggestions for me to remember, so I use this tweet as a public bookmark for myself.
And maybe others will also find it useful.
https://t.co/zjbswwrzVv

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@CSchmert @therealrchung @monjalexander Yes. I agree. Kind of like in an OLS setting with a significant coefficient but low r^2 😀

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@monjalexander Maybe interesting: the German expression ist Sterbetafel. Tafel is table and sterben means dying. I thought it is interesting that the two languages look at it from opposite directions.

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

Time to celebrate!
Our Director Mikko Myrskylä won a 14 Million Euro @ERC_Research Synergy Grant.
Together with Siri Eldevik Haberg @Folkehelseinstand and Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen @AarhusUni he leads the BIOSFER project.
👉 https://t.co/S3tF1nn2o7

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@monjalexander Good that demographers know how to do meaningful analyses with stage-classified populations as well. 😀I guess @HalCaswell would agree.

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@CSchmert I also wonder about that. Do I have a hidden talent?
I rarely dance. Last time I danced voluntarily was probably closer to the extinction of the dinosaurs than to today.
Maybe I should again. 😀

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Discovered this fantastic slogan yesterday while shopping for groceries: Real. Good. Roland 😀

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Having a nice walk with @CSchmert on the campus of @floridastate

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

Anyone experience with the Nara package for R #rstat in my bubble/ corner of the internet?
https://t.co/u1nokHD8d9

[Roland Rau @Demographie]

@peterseibel I get the Lisp 1 vs 2 (namespace,...). But I didn't get the 1.5 for R. A mixture of both? Or a bit of a joke, referring to the legendary LISP 1.5 programming manual by McCarthy (1962), meaning R's rules for namespaces are even more ancient?