Andy Timm
My new R package regrake is now live! Regularized raking enables more flexible functional forms in raking to population targets, leading to more expressive and efficient survey weights. You can install the package from r-universe or github: install.packages("regrake", repos =...
Andy Timm
I recently gave a talk on Regularized Raking at the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup. Here is the abstract: Raking is among the most common algorithms for producing survey weights, but it is often opaque what qualities of the resulting weights set are prioritized by the method. This...
andrew
July has been a busy month with a lot of survey work across the Orkney Islands. It has been a great opportunity to get to see a lot of the islands I hadn’t previously visited, although at times the logistics of Orkney Ferries or Logan Air were a bit of a challenge.Don’t feel sorry for me though, I...