In my previous post, I covered running portable services—version-controlled config, atomic updates, zero-downtime restarts, all without a container runtime. This is only half of the container story, though. You also need to build the service images.
Everyone Wants a Churn Model
Rarely do I ever get asked to make churn estimates for someone who needs to bring the full power of a proportional hazards model to bear. Besides, the person asking for churn estimates doesn’t actually want to know “what is the probability someone churns eventually?” (Spoiler: it’s 1.)
A Motivating Example
We were studying how microglia affect neuronal networks using a standard imaging experiment: 3 mice, 3 coverslips per condition, about 20 neurons measured per coverslip. Our question: Does LPS activation significantly increase PNA signal?
RU Kulkarni, CL Wang, CR Bertozzi
PLoS Computational Biology (2022)
While hierarchical experimental designs are near-ubiquitous in
neuroscience and biomedical research, researchers often do not
take the structure of their datasets into account while performing
statistical hypothesis tests. We present Hierarch, a Python package for
analyzing nested experimental designs. Using a combination of permutation
resampling and bootstrap aggregation, Hierarch can be used to
perform hypothesis tests that maintain nominal Type I error rates
and generate confidence intervals that maintain the nominal
coverage probability without making distributional assumptions
about the dataset of interest.