Blog · corpus.blog/blogs/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/posts
Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2024
28 Feb 2024
Free online book by Bruno Nicenboim, Daniel Schad, and Shravan Vasishth on Bayesian inference and hierarchical modeling using brms and Stanoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
27 Feb 2024
On the border between credulity and postmodernism: The case of the UFO’s-as-space-aliens media insidersoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2024
When Steve Bannon meets the Center for Open Science: Bad science and bad reporting combine to yield another ovulation/voting disasteroriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
“Not once in the twentieth century . . . has a single politician, actor, athlete, or surgeon emerged as a first-rate novelist, despite the dismayingly huge breadth of experience each profession affords.”original ↗
25 Feb 2024
24 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024
Uncertainty in games: How to get that balance so that there’s a motivation to play well, but you can still have a chance to come back from behind?original ↗
15 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024
If school funding doesn’t really matter, why do people want their kid’s school to be well funded?original ↗
10 Feb 2024
Hey, here’s some free money for you! Just lend your name to this university and they’ll pay you $1000 for every article you publish!original ↗
9 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024
Social penumbras predict political attitudes (my talk at Harvard on Monday Feb 12 at noon)original ↗
8 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024
“Replicability & Generalisability”: Applying a discount factor to cost-effectiveness estimates.original ↗
7 Feb 2024
It’s bezzle time: The Dean of Engineering at the University of Nevada gets paid $372,127 a year and wrote a paper that’s so bad, you can’t believe it.original ↗
6 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024
“Participants reported being hungrier when they walked into the café (mean = 7.38, SD = 2.20) than when they walked out [mean = 1.53, SD = 2.70, F(1, 75) = 107.68, P < 0.001]."original ↗
2 Feb 2024
Click here to help this researcher gather different takes on making data visualizations for blind peopleoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024
30 Jan 2024
“When will AI be able to do scientific research both cheaper and better than us, thus effectively obsoleting humans?”original ↗
29 Jan 2024
Sympathy for the Nudgelords: Vermeule endorsing stupid and dangerous election-fraud claims and Levitt promoting climate change denial are like cool dudes in the 60s wearing Che T-shirts and thinking Chairman Mao was cool—we think they’re playing with fire, they think they’re cute contrarians pointing out contradictions in the system. For a certain kind of person, it’s fun to be a rogue.original ↗
28 Jan 2024
The paradox of replication studies: A good analyst has special data analysis and interpretation skills. But it’s considered a bad or surprising thing that if you give the same data to different analysts, they come to different conclusions.original ↗
27 Jan 2024
The importance of measurement, and how you can draw ridiculous conclusions from your statistical analyses if you don’t think carefully about measurement . . . Leamer (1983) got it.original ↗
26 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024
Learning from mistakes (my online talk for the American Statistical Association, 2:30pm Tues 30 Jan 2024)original ↗
23 Jan 2024
“My view is that if I can show that a result was cooked and that doing it correctly does not yield the answer the authors claimed, then the result is discredited. . . . What I hear, instead, is the following . . .”original ↗
22 Jan 2024
What’s the problem, “math snobs” or rich dudes who take themselves too seriously and are enabled in that by the news media?original ↗
21 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024
Storytelling and Scientific Understanding (my talks with Thomas Basbøll at Johns Hopkins on 26 Apr)original ↗
18 Jan 2024
16 Jan 2024
15 Jan 2024
“Theoretical statistics is the theory of applied statistics”: A scheduled conference on the topicoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024
“My quick answer is that I don’t care much about permutation tests because they are testing a null null hypothesis that is of typically no interest”original ↗
11 Jan 2024
The appeal of New York Times columnist David Brooks . . . Yeah, I know this all sounds like a nutty “it’s wheels within wheels, man” sort of argument, but I’m serious here!original ↗
10 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024
The immediate victims of the con would rather act as if the con never happened. Instead, they’re mad at the outsiders who showed them that they were being fooled.original ↗
7 Jan 2024
What to trust in the newspaper? Example of “The Simple Nudge That Raised Median Donations by 80%”original ↗
5 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024
Here’s a sad post for you to start the new year. The Onion (ok, an Onion-affiliate site) is plagiarizing. For reals.original ↗
1 Jan 2024
2023
The continuing challenge of poststratification when we don’t have full joint data on the population.original ↗
31 Dec 2023
Hey wassup Detroit Pistons? What’s gonna happen for the rest of the season? Let’s get (kinda) Bayesian. With graphs and code (but not a lot of data; sorry):original ↗
29 Dec 2023
28 Dec 2023