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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
documentation

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The issue discusses expanding IMS toward Stat 2, with model-building material covering variable interpretation, add1(), drop1(), prediction, and tidymodels. Start by reviewing the existing IMS structure and content to identify gaps; done would require a defined, agreed scope and a complete set of new material.

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v3

Nick keeps pushing us to think about expanding IMS to Stat 2. I don't know. But, one of the pieces I find most interesting is model building with two cultures and how the code makes the process easier or harder.

Model as variables: if you really care about the variable interpretation, then you want to hone in on which coefficients should be kept in the model. add1() and drop1() are super useful for that.

Model as prediction: if you really care about the model as a way to make predictions, then you mostly care about how the model does in the wild. And tidymodels is incredibly powerful for working with data in principled ways so as to get accurate assessments.

There could be some good stuff in here. But man, there would be a lot of other stuff to fill in the gaps, and it feels like a GINORMOUS task to do it well.

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