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Gertjan Verhoeven

Data Scientist / Policy Advisor

Dutch Healthcare Authority

Biography

I am a research scientist at the Dutch Healthcare Authority, working on health policy analysis 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

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

OpenJDK and IcedTea: Java Web Start Forensics on Ubuntu

To play Blood Bowl online on FUMBBL.com, a Java client is used that works with Java Web Start. On my Ubuntu linux system, open source …
Jan 4, 2022 9 min read Linux, Blood Bowl

Using R to analyse the Roche Antigen Rapid Test: How accurate is it?

This blog post is about the Roche Rapid Antigen Test Nasal. How accurate is it? I tracked down the data mentioned in the kit’s …
Jun 6, 2021 21 min read Statistics, Data science, Measurement

Writing scientific papers using Rstudio and Zotero

This blog post describes a sequence of 9 steps to set up a reproducible workflow for scientific writing based on open-source tooling. …
May 2, 2021 7 min read Scientific writing
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