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The use of R in official statistics conference 2018

Posted on May 22, 2018 by mark

On September 12-14 the 6th international conference on the use of R in official statistics (#uRos2018) will take place at the Dutch National Statistical Office in Den Haag, the Netherlands. The conference is aimed at producers and users of official … Continue reading →

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validate version 0.1.5 is out

Posted on June 24, 2016 by mark

A new version of the validate package for data validation was just accepted on CRAN and will be available on all mirrors in a few days. The most important addition is that you can now reference the data set as … Continue reading →

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Simple pattern detection in numerical data

Posted on May 26, 2011 by mark

A while ago I helped out a colleague who was testing some methods to detect economic (in)activity of companies, based on their quarterly tax declarations (our institute has access to such data). One of the thing my colleague wanted was to detect simple patterns, … Continue reading →

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