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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2021
Is an improper uniform prior informative? It isn’t by any accepted measure of information I know oforiginal ↗
28 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021
24 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021
The challenges of statistical measurement . . . in an environment where bad measurement and junk science get hypedoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2021
Several postdoc, research fellow, and doctoral student positions in Aalto/Helsinki, Finlandoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021
The Xbox before its time: Using the famous 1936 Literary Digest survey as a positive example of statistical adjustment rather than a negative example of non-probability samplingoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021
StanConnect 2021 is happening this summer/fall! Topics are Simulation Based Calibration, Ecology, Biomedical, and Cognitive Science and Neuroscience.original ↗
14 Jul 2021
That $9 trillion bill on the sidewalk: Why don’t third-world countries borrow to get vaccines?original ↗
14 Jul 2021
Can statistical software do better at giving warnings when you apply a method when maybe you shouldn’t?original ↗
13 Jul 2021
Thoughts on “The American Statistical Association President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability”original ↗
12 Jul 2021
“The real thing, like the Perseverance mission, is slow, difficult and expensive, but far cooler than the make-believe alternative.”original ↗
9 Jul 2021
She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.”original ↗
8 Jul 2021
How to reconcile that I hate structural equation models, but I love measurement error models and multilevel regressions, even though these are special cases of structural equation models?original ↗
6 Jul 2021
“Historians’ Fallacies” by David Hackett Fischer and “The Rhetoric of Fiction” by Wayne Boothoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
John Cook: “Students are disturbed when they find out that Newtonian mechanics ‘only’ works over a couple dozen orders of magnitude. They’d really freak out if they realized how few theories work well when applied over two orders of magnitude.”original ↗
3 Jul 2021
From “Mathematical simplicity is not always the same as conceptual simplicity” to scale-free parameterization and its connection to hierarchical modelsoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2021
The continuing misrepresentations coming from the University of California sleep researcher and publicized by Ted and NPRoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2021
30 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021
“Sources must lose credibility when it is shown they promote falsehoods, even more when they never take accountability for those falsehoods.”original ↗
24 Jun 2021
21 Jun 2021
20 Jun 2021
She’s thinking of buying a house, but it has a high radon measurement. What should she do?original ↗
19 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021
Guttman points out another problem with null hypothesis significance testing: It falls apart when considering replications.original ↗
17 Jun 2021
Neel Shah: modeling skewed and heavy-tailed data as approximate normals in Stan using the LambertW functionoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2021
Wow, just wow. If you think Psychological Science was bad in the 2010-2015 era, you can’t imagine how bad it was back in 1999original ↗
16 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021
The University of California statistics department paid at least $329,619.84 to an adjunct professor who did no research, was a terrible teacher, and engaged in sexual harassmentoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2021
13 Jun 2021
Whassup with the FDA approval of that Alzheimer’s drug? A “disgraceful decision” or a good idea?original ↗
12 Jun 2021
12 Jun 2021
This system too often rewards cronyism rather than hard work or creativity — and perpetuates the gross inequalities in representation …original ↗
10 Jun 2021
When MCMC fails: The advice we’re giving is wrong. Here’s what we you should be doing instead. (Hint: it’s all about the folk theorem.)original ↗
10 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021
4 years of an unpopular Republican president –> bad news for Republican support among young voters –> continuation of unprecedented generation gap –> I’m not sure what this implies for politicsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021
When does a misunderstanding reach the point where it is recognized to be flat-out ridiculous?original ↗
4 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021
More institutional failure by universities that refuse to grapple with potential research misconduct by their facultyoriginal ↗
31 May 2021
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27 May 2021
A fun activity for your statistics class: One group of students comes up with a stochastic model for a decision process and simulates fake data from this model; another group of students takes this simulated dataset and tries to learn about the underlying process.original ↗
26 May 2021
25 May 2021
25 May 2021