I have very fond memories of feeding the giraffe there; have fun enjoying Nairobi (taking breakfast at the national park at dawn, in one of the picnic / viewpoints on the high ground overlooking the rest of the park was a real treat, as was the elephant orphanage)

If you want to check out the examples from the Physalia course, the materials from the last running are available on GitHub

github.com/gavinsimpson...

I’d be happy to add/use a psych example or two if you have suggestions for papers or analyses where the data are open?

As I’m a geographer by PhD working in ecology, environmental science, and now animal science, the examples tend towards the natural and life sciences, but they are quite varied so attendees from a wide array of backgrounds usually find them relatable.

I’ll be running a 3-day one at AU Viborg (about an hour from Aarhus, Denmark) June 9th through 11th that is in person. Dates are TBC but registration should be open in the next couple of weeks

I’m also running an online one with @physaliacourses.bsky.social in December this year.

Congratulations Thomas; I know this release hasn’t been an easy one

😱

It is also usually an example inappropriate calculation-first-estimation-second when we should be doing things the other way round; estimate model then calculate differences/ratios from the model, not the data

🐛 A couple of bugs squashed along the way.

📄 Full changelog: gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/news/...

🛠️ partial_derivatives() improvements:

• handles multiple smooths better
• ignores random effect & univariate smooths
• clearer error messages

📈 quantile_residuals() supports more mgcv 📦 families:

• scat()
• nb()
• betar()
• tw()

✨ Plots: residuals_hist_plot() (and appraise()) now align histogram bins more sensibly, centering at 0.

You could try the gamlss2 package next time; it’s a lot quicker than gamlss (it’s a redevelopment of the original by same authors plus others). Only on GitHub at the moment