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Martin Modrák

@modrak_m@bayes.club

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Biostatistics, bioinformatics. Bayesian. Stan language, simulation-based calibration.
Currently at Deparment of Bioinformatics, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague

565 Followers

155 Following

8 Posts

Joined February 07, 2024

Website:

https://martinmodrak.cz/

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8886-7797

Github:

https://github.com/martinmodrak/

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Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@foolishowl@social.coop I've heard this is terrible in the US. I feel that's partly a failed regulation issue - here (Czechia), I take almost all calls, because spam/advertising calls are +/- sensibly regulated and thus are not so frequent.

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 6mo ago

Replying to

And the book website is up, thx to @avehtari@bayes.club https://avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Workflow/

avehtari.github.io

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ngaylinn Thanks for sharing, some food for thought here, but I think the author is not as serious as they may like to look. The most notable example is when he claims Alice's and Bob's meetings would go the same. A decent supervisor should notice that a student is not understanding the topic they are studying (code they "wrote", papers you assigned, ...). It probably says more about the author's approach to supervision than the real world.

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz I don't think any translation is likely: previous books by Gelman/Vehtari/McElreath are AFAIK not translated and most of the team don't speak Spanish.

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 25mo ago

An IMHO extremely good and refreshing take on randomized trials with a lot of useful context to the somewhat well known discussion about whether randomizing newborns to not receive Extracorporeal Life Support was ethical (it was not, but for a different reason than usually discussed)

#stats #rct #ebm #EvidenceBasedMedicine
https://cjblunt.com/the-parachute-problem-extracorporeal-life-support-and-the-demand-for-trials/

CJ Blunt

The Parachute Problem: Extracorporeal Life Support and the Demand for Trials - CJ Blunt

“One of the best things about [extracorporeal life support] is that it acts as a parachute. It’s there when everything else fails and has known results”. Robert Bartlett 1: Parachutes and the Demand for Trials The United States Parachute Association recorded 120 deaths while skydiving in America in …

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @benroyce@mastodon.social As an instance owner, is there something proactive I can do about this? E.g. is there some easy way for an admin to see all posts with limited visibility (but not DMs) the instance knows about so that I can screen for bad behaviour? Or would that be too privacy intrusive?

Martin Modrák @modrak_m@bayes.club

· 5mo ago

Epigrams (esp. early modern ones) are the closest older writers were to toots/tweets. People always loved witty, very short forms! So to honor that tradition, here's my attempt at translating one famous in Czechia:

Don't go skating with the Lords, Bill,
many a case is known:
the Lord he falls - and still - the poor guy breaks a bone.

Karel Havlíček Borovský, Epigrams 1845

(h/t Rafe Meager for the observation: https://bsky.app/profile/economeager.bsky.social/post/3mlfxczx5n22s )

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