Gertjan Verhoeven

Data Scientist / Policy Advisor

Dutch Healthcare Authority

Biography

I am a research scientist at the Dutch Healthcare Authority and extramural fellow at Tilburg University, working on health policy and statistical methods. I have a background in experimental physics, with a PhD in Biophysics.

Interests

Bayesian Statistics
Health Policy
Causal Inference
Machine Learning

Education

PhD in Biophysics, 2008

Leiden University

Recent Posts

Statistical computing on a shoestring: Stan in the Azure cloud using Cloud-init

Automating deployment of an inexpensive Linux R/Stan development environment in the Azure public cloud.

Jan 15, 2024 25 min read Linux, Statistics, Cloud Computing

The Super League: Tournament Blood Bowl online

Yet another Blood Bowl post! This one is to introduce the Super League, the ultimate tournament-style Blood Bowl available online.

Sep 21, 2023 7 min read Blood Bowl, Statistics

Visualizing Blood Bowl Tournament rosters

Yet another Blood Bowl post! This one is to warm up to the upcoming World Cup, analyzing variation in Tournament Roster choices.

Feb 27, 2023 9 min read Blood Bowl, Clustering, Statistics

Classifying Blood Bowl teams using clustered heatmaps

Restate my assumptions: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. In this post we’ll use clustered heatmaps to …

Nov 1, 2022 14 min read Blood Bowl, Clustering, Statistics

Optimal performance with Random Forests: does feature selection beat tuning?

This blog post demonstrates that the presence of irrelevant variables can reduce the performance of the Random Forest algorithm (as …

Jul 9, 2022 21 min read Statistics, Machine Learning

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