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Getting started with knbsdata2 days ago
What is and is not in this version | Five ideas worth knowing | 1. Everything carries its provenance | 2. Citations come from the data, not from you | 3. Access conditions are data, not decoration | 4. Failure is explicit | 5. Everything is a tibble that speaks tidyverse | A first session | Configuration | Caching | Where to next
County codes and joins13 days ago
The reference | The two classic corruptions | A worked join | Gross County Product | Health by county: the KDHS | Matching county names across sources | What is deliberately absent
Source status and limitations13 days ago
Registered sources | What each stability level means | What works | What does not, and why | The archive's microdata cannot be downloaded | Documentation files are not listed | The newest Gross County Product years are still documents | Geography: one vintage, no boundaries, no classifications | Variable documentation is uneven | How you will know if something changes | Reporting a change | Disclaimer
Working with the survey catalogue14 days ago
What is supported | Finding a survey | Reading a study's documentation | Searching variables | Files, and what you may do with them | Downloading microdata | Open microdata: the FinAccess surveys | Handling errors | Citing what you used | Caching
The Statistical Abstract as tidy tables16 days ago
Curated, not guessed | Listing and fetching | Reading the columns | County tables join everything else | Units, footnotes and sources | Into the tidyverse | Provenance travels | What this is not
Indicators: census tables and consumer prices16 days ago
The Data Portal (SDMX) | Open Data for Africa (the republisher) | Consumer prices | CPI geography is not census geography | Retail prices | Census tables | What the census source is, and is not | Finding a table | Getting observations | Filtering geography | A worked example | Provenance and citation | Honesty notes
Estimating disparity with explicit assumptions21 days ago
Events, reporting coverage and exposure | Missing ethnicity changes the estimand | Denominator scenarios require comparable cells | Direct age-sex standardisation | Rankings need uncertainty, too | Validation and limits
From archive to audited dataset21 days ago
Acquire a snapshot, then choose whole files | Coverage comes before comparison | Attach geography locally | Inspect timestamp quality and exposures | Export a reviewable report
Outcome tests and veil of darkness21 days ago
Three separate meanings of an outcome | A time-quality screen is mandatory | Local clock time, sunset and civil twilight
Small-area disparity with spatial smoothing: simulation evidence21 days ago
A spatial model of disparity | Recovery independent of total intensity | Replicated evidence, including failure modes
A forecast in ten minutes: the canonical QPM in qpmR22 days ago
The canonical model | Solving and checking | Monetary transmission | History and forecast | Specification checks | Adapting the model to your country | Real data: Czechia | Policy analysis: conditions, judgment, rounds | Closing the round: audit and report | Where to go next
Estimating qpmR models: priors, posteriors, identification22 days ago
Priors | A laboratory: estimating an AR(1) | Identification: ask before you sample | Marginal likelihood and Bayes factors | On real data
Estimating disparity with explicit assumptions1 months ago
Events, reporting coverage and exposure | Missing ethnicity changes the estimand | Denominator scenarios require comparable cells | Direct age-sex standardisation | Rankings need uncertainty, too | Validation and limits
From archive to audited dataset1 months ago
Acquire a snapshot, then choose whole files | Coverage comes before comparison | Attach geography locally | Inspect timestamp quality and exposures | Export a reviewable report
Outcome tests and veil of darkness1 months ago
Three separate meanings of an outcome | A time-quality screen is mandatory | Local clock time, sunset and civil twilight
Small-area disparity with spatial smoothing: simulation evidence1 months ago
A spatial model of disparity | Recovery independent of total intensity | Replicated evidence, including failure modes