Package Updates

R-bloggers 2024-11-14

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Several updates. All packages are on CRAN, but please use GitHub for the latest.

  1. dsld (Data Science Looks at Discrimination. New package. Tools for (a) careful investigation of possible discrimination (race, sex, age etc.) and (b) avoiding/amelioration of bias in machine learning algorithms. Comes with a free Quarto textbook on the methodology. Usefull in education, research, litigation etc. https://github.com/matloff/dsld. A draft paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04228
  2. regtools. Varied and powerful tools for regression analysis and related data ops. Latest has updated and new functions for “fine tuning,” i.e. grid search for good values of tuning parameters/hyperparameters. Includes smoothing and Bonferonni-Dunn confidence intervals for output. https://github.com/matloff/regtools
  3. qeML (“quick and easy machine learning). Expanded usability for qePlotCurves (e.g. allows both wide and long input), and the new qeMittalGraph function. https://github.com/matloff/qeML
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