Marta Kołczyńska
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Marta Kołczyńska
@mkolczynska.bsky.social

Assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences • PhD Soc @ Ohio State • Sociology & Political Science • Social Science Data & Methods • R • assoc. editor @ IJPOR & Survey Research Methods • #pokolenieNCN .. more

Political science 38%
Sociology 20%
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Please, I am begging you. Do not use dplyr::ntile() in any serious statistical analysis in which you want to group continuous observation into quantile-based bins. Despite the name it doesn't actually do that, and the thing it actually does is very dangerous when accuracy matter. #rstats
The trouble with ‘ntile()’ – Notes from a data witch
Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...
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