Name: Keynote: Some things you can’t read from a NEWS file - Torsten Hothorn, University of Zürich
Start: 2024-07-10T16:15:00+0200
End: 2024-07-10T17:15:00+0200

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8 - 11 July, 2024
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Wednesday July 10, 2024 16:15 - 17:15 CEST

Salzburg I + II

Longterm package maintenance comes with its own challenges and benefits. While NEWS files document technical histories of packages, the non-technical, methodological and social aspects of package development are rarely discussed in a wider audience. Based on personal experience, this keynote presentation will shed some light on motivations, frustrations, benefits and challenges associated with the self-assigned task of keeping a package alive over decades.

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Torsten Hothorn

Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zürich

Torsten Hothorn is Professor of Biostatistics ad personam at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute of the University of Zurich.He received a Diploma in Statistics from the University of Dortmund in 2000 and a Dr. rerum naturalium in 2003 from the same universit... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Salzburg I + II

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