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survivoR now includes US50 and AU12

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Are the chances of being voted out next higher if you are in the minority after a tribe swap?

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Quick Guide: Group Jackknife Variance Estimation

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Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR}

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survivoR now includes US50 and AU12

May 27, 2026 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

After a couple of big seasons survivoR v2.3.12 has been updated with US50 and AU12. Get it on: As of […]

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Are the chances of being voted out next higher if you are in the minority after a tribe swap?

March 9, 2026 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Intuitively, you’d say, “yeah, of course they are on the chopping block”. But you can also hypothesise reasons where being […]

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Quick Guide: Group Jackknife Variance Estimation

February 2, 2026 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

What is the Group Jackknife? The group jackknife is a resampling technique that estimates the variance of any statistic. This […]

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Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR}

January 8, 2026 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor 49 has wrapped up and has been added to the {survivoR} package. It is available on If you find […]

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Does winning back-to-back individual immunity challenges decrease your chances of surviving the next Tribal Councils?

November 26, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

The narrative tends to be “they’re just going to win all the challenges, we have to vote them out now!”. […]

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How important is it to be on the right side of the vote after merge?

October 28, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor players are pretty savvy these days and know the importance of being on the right side of the vote […]

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You win chickens at a reward challenge. What do you do?

October 26, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

In episode 5 of Survivor 49 we saw another instance of a tribe winning a rooster and three egg laying […]

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In Survivor, there’s one group that needs more love

October 22, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

During my previous post using the Survivor Fact Checkers popularity poll data, a few things stood out. There was at […]

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Is Star the most popular, under-edited player in Survivor?

October 22, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Kosta, the Survivor Fact Checker, was kind enough to share some data with me to test two hypotheses: The reason […]

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Survivor Australia vs. The World is now in {survivoR}

September 15, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor Australia vs. The World has wrapped up, and the data is now available in the {survivoR} package. You can […]

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Do winners get more confessionals?

August 30, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Does the person with the most confessionals win the season? That’s a clear no. A better question is, do winners […]

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Alone Australia Season 3 Wrap Up

July 4, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

In the third season of Alone Australia, ten survivalists were abandoned in the remote and unforgiving wilderness of Tasmania’s West […]

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Season 48 is now in 📦{survivoR} + new datasets and data updates

June 20, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor 48 has wrapped up, and the data has been added to the package and is now available on CRAN. […]

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Castaway Scores: Who is the Best Survivor Player of All Time?

June 20, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

There have been some legendary players over the 25 years and 48 seasons – Boston Rob, Sandra, Tony, Ozzy, Cirie, […]

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📦 {alone} v0.6 is now available

June 14, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Alone: Australia season 3 has finished and has been added to the {alone} R package 👍 Season 3 was awesome. […]

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