Aurimas Racas
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Aurimas Racas
@aurimas.eu
Spent 10 years doing M&A / financial analysis, discovered life, now in product analytics and get occasionally obsessed with funky stats.

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New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!

If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.

www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Nice write up on working with missing data and matching, with lots of practical code that goes into detailed choices on _how_ to do it right!
February 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Based on some folks’ responses in the the dbt slack, looks like a chunk of it will be in core!
January 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I am delighted to share our latest piece of research:

‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’.

This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date.

A thread:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.
November 21, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Local registration for the 2024 round of my FREE OPEN ONLINE Statistical Rethinking course has begun. I'll open up registration on Sunday 3 December. See theatrical trailer below and other details on the course github page #stats 🧪 github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2022 - Theatrical Trailer
Montage of animations from the 2022 lectures. Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdMROZ57-OIRtIK0aOynbgZN
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November 28, 2023 at 12:21 PM