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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2023
6 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023
“Risk without reward: The myth of wage compensation for hazardous work.” Also some thoughts of how this literature ended up to be so bad.original ↗
1 Mar 2023
28 Feb 2023
27 Feb 2023
“Not within spitting distance”: Challenges in measuring ovulation, as an example of the general issue of the importance of measurement in statisticsoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023
with Lauren Kennedy and Jessica Hullman: “Causal quartets: Different ways to attain the same average treatment effect”original ↗
24 Feb 2023
“Erroneous Statistics in Physical Review Physics Education Research . . . causal conclusions that are unsupported by evidence and sometimes (e.g. on use of GREs) flatly contradicted by the evidence”original ↗
21 Feb 2023
Contradictions within economic theory. All well known but still important and, I think, not taken as seriously as they should be.original ↗
18 Feb 2023
It’s round 3 of the Ultimate Seminar Speaker contest! E. Gary Gygax vs. Shakira; Li advancesoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023
12 Feb 2023
Statistical analysis: (1) Plotting the data, (2) Constructing and fitting models, (3) Plotting data along with fitted models, (4) Further modeling and data collectionoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2023
Controversy over an article on syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: As usual, I’d like to see more graphs of the data.original ↗
10 Feb 2023
Great news: “From next year, eLife is eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review, instead focusing on public reviews and assessments of preprints.”original ↗
9 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023
Where are the right-wing congressional candidates with science and engineering backgrounds? A pipeline problem, perhaps.original ↗
4 Feb 2023
On the ethics of pollsters or journalists or political scientists betting on prediction marketsoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2023
As the last days of January dawn… the 2nd International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition arrives!original ↗
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023
Labeling the x and y axes: Here’s a quick example where a bit of care can make a big difference.original ↗
26 Jan 2023
Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation for Bayesian non-factorized normal and Student-t modelsoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023
“Several artists have torn, burned, ripped and cut their artwork over the course of their careers. it is still possible for them to do it, but they will be able to preserve their artwork permanently on the blockchain.”original ↗
23 Jan 2023
22 Jan 2023
“We found that almost no respondents currently report probabilistically. Perhaps more surprisingly, most respondents who claimed to report probabilistically, in fact, do not.”original ↗
21 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023
There are five ways to get fired from Caesars: (1) theft, (2) sexual harassment, (3) running an experiment without a control group, (4) keeping a gambling addict away from the casino, (5) refusing to promote gambling to college studentsoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2023
Our first in-person StanCon since 2019 will be held in Washington University in St. Louis!original ↗
18 Jan 2023
“The qualitative conclusions of our work remain the same”: Has it ever been otherwise? Click to learn more about induced brain injuries in piglets:original ↗
18 Jan 2023
Ethical standards of some rich retired athletes are as low as ethical standards of some rich scientistsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023
Have social psychologists improved in their understanding of the importance of representative sampling and treatment interactions?original ↗
11 Jan 2023
Fields where it matters that “there’s no there there,” fields where you can thrive on B.S. alone, and everything in betweenoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2023
8 Jan 2023
The good news is that the pound is collapsing so this particular publishing scam is not as expensive as you might think!original ↗
7 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023