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Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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A second post

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Bayesian nonparametrics

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP) priors are often used as flexible models to describe the unknown distribution of a heterogeneous population, implicitly inducing a clustering of the observations into homogeneous groups.

Part of my work uses BNP methods to aid data analysis for a specific application, while I am also interested in developing methodological extensions of BNP priors to improve data analysis in practice.

Prior-driven clustering

Proposed a class of prior distributions on the partition space shrunk toward a known partition, named Centered Partition Processes.

Computational methods and software

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fast Bayesian model assessment

Posterior predictive checks are probably the most popular tool for Bayesian model assessment. The rationale behind is fairly simple: if the model I am using is “good”, then new (simulated) data from my model should be similar to the original observed data. Similarity is sometimes assessed using graphical comparisons, but more often some statistics of the the data are used, which can be accompanied by a posterior predictive p-value (ppp).

A Bayesian framework for cancer detection

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Blood-based tests are among the most-promising technologies for minimally invasive detection of cancer at early stages. These tests are based on the analysis of cell-free DNA, fragments of DNA released by cells that can be found in the blood and other body fluids. When developing a cancer mass, some of these fragments will be released by cancerous cells. DNA from these cells will differ by other fragments because of acquired mutations.

Set up your social

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

There are five places where you can choose to show social icons. Here is the tl;dr:

site header (set in config.toml),
site footer (set in config.toml),
homepage (set in content/_index.md),
about page in the sidebar (set in content/about/sidebar/index.md), and
contact page (set in content/form/contact.md).

Read on to learn how to set up your social icons, and how to show/hide them.

Wherever you end up wanting to show your social icons, you’ll need to start by setting up the links in your site config.toml file. Open that up and scroll down to the [[params.social]] section. The start of it looks like this:

Style your site colors

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

You can totally customize your site’s theme colors within minutes of creating a new site. Read on to find out how, and decide which of the three options meets your needs.

Use a color theme

Hugo Apéro includes 8 built-in color themes that work “out of the box.” This means you can use a color theme to quickly customize the look of your site without needing to write any CSS. You can select the color theme in your config.toml file. Scroll down to find:

Style your site typography

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

As with color themes, you can completely customize your site’s fonts within minutes of creating a new site. How you do it depends on how much control and customization you need.

Embedded fonts

Hugo Apéro includes 6 embedded fonts that work “out of the box.” We selected 3 serif and 3 sans-serif options that we thought looked good with this theme, in our humble opinions. All embedded fonts include real italics so you may emphasize to your heart’s content :heart:! How to choose?

An evergreen post

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Rendering mathematical equations

Examples from the mathjax demo. But they work with katex as well.

Rmarkdown

In .Rmarkdown documents, you can use either

Using panelsets

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Courtesy of panelset.js by Garrick Aden-Buie, from his xaringanExtra package: https://pkg.garrickadenbuie.com/xaringanExtra/#/panelset

For example, this panelset:

Hello! 👋

hello

Goodbye 💨

goodbye

Was created by combining this theme’s panelset and panel shortcodes:

{{< panelset class="greetings" >}}
{{< panel name="Hello! :wave:" >}}
  hello
{{< /panel >}}
{{< panel name="Goodbye :dash:" >}}
  goodbye
{{< /panel >}}
{{< /panelset >}}

You could also revert to HTML as well. For example, this panelset:

Question

Which came first: the :chicken: or the :egg:?

An Rmarkdown post

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Air quality

with(airquality, boxplot(Temp ~ Month))

with(airquality, plot(Ozone ~ Temp))

mlev <- levels(with(airquality, as.factor(Month)))
with(airquality, plot(Ozone ~ Temp, 
                      pch = as.numeric(mlev), 
                      col = mlev))

CSS Grid Scaffold

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

“Grid is the very first CSS module created specifically to solve the layout problems we’ve all been hacking our way around for as long as we’ve been making websites.”

— Chris House, A Complete Guide to CSS Grid Layout ¹

Overview

Since I began building websites in Y2K, I’ve lost count how many times the phrase “…there’s got to be a better way to do this” has passed my lips. Most times, while fighting with floats and widths of content and sidebars or just basically trying to get something beside something else without using a stupid TABLE.

Built-in Contact Form

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Formspree makes it easy to receive submissions from HTML forms on your static website.

Functional Form

This theme has a form-to-email feature built in, thanks to the simple Formspree integration. All you need to activate the form is a valid recipient email address saved in the front matter of the form (/content/forms/contact.md). Of course, the example shown below (your@email.here) must not be used. Please use your actual email address.

Typography Styles & Element Examples

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:27:33 -0600

Font Sizes

A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
6rem (96px)	5rem (80px)	3rem (48px)	2.25rem (36px)	1.5rem (24px)	1.25rem (20px)	1rem (16px)	.875rem (14px)

Type Samples

Headline

Subheadline

Level 1 Heading

One page to rule them all...well, not really. This page displays sample typography and page elements to illustrate their style. Things like headings and paragraphs showing the beautiful type scale, form elements, tabular data, and image layouts just to name a few.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Service to the Profession

I am currently the Program-Chair Elect for the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science ( SBSS) for the year 2025. I have been elected as member of the ISBA Board of Directors for the years 2025-2027.

Since June 2021, I am Associate Editor of The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science (Software section).

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Refereed journals

Informed Random Partition Models with Temporal Dependence.
Paganin, S., Page, G. L., Quintana, F. (2025) Elctronic Journal of Statistics, 10(2), 4973-5018
[ link | arXiV | slides ]

Bayesian Nonparametric Latent Class Analysis With Different Item Types.
Qiu, M., Paganin, S., Ohn, L., Lin, L. (2025)
Psychological Methods (accepted)
[ link | OSFpreprint | github ]

Contributors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you to all the folks who have contributed both technical and creative skills to this project:

Desirée De Leon :giraffe: (designed 5 of the custom color themes, made illustrations for the workshop, and provided general aesthetic feedback along the way)
Garrick Aden-Buie :mage: (debugged headroom.js and lent his panelset.js code to the theme)
Allison Horst :dog2: (awesome illustrations of campfires, seedlings, and evergreens, as well as my R Markdown hedgehog mascot :hedgehog:)

License

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Sally Paganin on Home

A first post

does this work?

or this?

A second post

part 2!

does this work?

now for some very cool things

more

get ready!

A third post

are you still here?

does this work?

final stretch!

Bayesian nonparametrics

Prior-driven clustering

Computational methods and software

Fast Bayesian model assessment

A Bayesian framework for cancer detection

Set up your social

Configure social

Style your site colors

Use a color theme

Style your site typography

Embedded fonts

An evergreen post

Rendering mathematical equations

Rmarkdown

Using panelsets

An Rmarkdown post

Air quality

CSS Grid Scaffold

“Grid is the very first CSS module created specifically to solve the layout problems we’ve all been hacking our way around for as long as we’ve been making websites.”

Overview

Built-in Contact Form

Formspree makes it easy to receive submissions from HTML forms on your static website.

Functional Form

Typography Styles & Element Examples

Font Sizes

Type Samples

Head­line

Sub­head­line

Level 1 Heading

Service to the Profession

Refereed journals

Contributors

License

Headline

Subheadline