Zlog (Zane’s Blog)

This is where I plan to post about different things that I’m interested in. Andrew Heiss gave me the excellent advice that all my work should be done in public because you never know what will be useful to someone else, and some of my adviser Andreas Handel’s posts have been very helpful to me. So maybe one day my blog will be as useful as their blogs.

2014 vs. 2024 Great Weapon Fighting

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The new D&D Player’s Handbook (5th edition 2024) came out recently, and the Great Weapon Fighting fighting style is a bit different. But is it better, or is the old one better?

Instructions for an Easy Quarto Website

Just a list of instructions for building a quarto website with netlify, no GitHub, no CSS, nothing too technical.

Increase vs post titer as regression outcome

Lots of people debate about whether titer increase (log of fold change) or raw post-vaccination titer should be used as the outcome for a regression model of immunological data. Under certain generative models however, these models are essentially equivalent and we can show how.

Intro to Bootstrap CIs

One of my lab mates wanted to calculate bootstrap CIs for a project, which is something I know how to do. So I wanted to write a basic tutorial on bootstrap confidence intervals.

Simulating Titer Data with Distance as a Covariate

In the second part of the HAI data manifesto, we’ll discuss how to incorporate a single covariate into the data generating process.

Simulating Titer Data

So I work with a lot of immunological titer data, particularly HAI titers for flu. And I’ve recently needed to work out how to do some simulations. So this post will cover the generative model I’ve developed and show some examples, while hopefully explaining each step in a way. Mostly so my adviser can tell me what he thinks I did wrong.

Histogram binwidths

The shortest possible description of histogram binwidths in R

Multiple diagnostic testing and Bayes’ rule

When you do multiple diagnostic tests in sequence, how do you estimate your probability of the condition?