{"id":92,"date":"2014-05-05T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2014-05-05T22:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:13:47","slug":"bandit-version-0-5-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/bandit-version-0-5-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandit version 0.5.0 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded a new version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/bandit\/index.html\">bandit package<\/a> to CRAN, which does computation around Bayesian Bandit A\/B testing. It now includes my first contribution from another author, an implementation of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/2846882?hl=en&#038;topic=2844866&#038;rd=1\">value remaining<\/a>&#8221; in an experiment, thanks to Dr. Markus Loecher. I&#8217;ve also been considering automatically implementing a hierarchical model (which I now think is significantly better than assuming even an uninformative independent prior for the arms). I am hesitant to depend on JAGS (because of the trouble I&#8217;ve sometimes seen in installing it), but I might do just that in the next version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded a new version of my bandit package to CRAN, which does computation around Bayesian Bandit A\/B testing. It now includes my first contribution from another author, an implementation of the &#8220;value remaining&#8221; in an experiment, thanks to Dr. Markus Loecher. I&#8217;ve also been considering automatically implementing a hierarchical model (which I now think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}