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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2021
19 May 2021
17 May 2021
15 May 2021
Plan for the creation of “a network of new scientific institutes pursuing basic research while not being dependent on universities, the NIH, and the rest of traditional academia and, importantly, not being dominated culturally by academia”original ↗
14 May 2021
2 reasons why the CDC and WHO were getting things wrong: (1) It takes so much more evidence to correct a mistaken claim than to establish it in the first place; (2) The implicit goal of much of the public health apparatus is to serve the health care delivery system.original ↗
12 May 2021
8 May 2021
6 May 2021
Indeed, the standard way that statistical hypothesis testing is taught is a 2-way binary grid. Both these dichotomies are inappropriate.original ↗
5 May 2021
Whatever you’re looking for, it’s somewhere in the Stan documentation and you can just google for it.original ↗
3 May 2021
When can a predictive model improve by anticipating behavioral reactions to its predictions?original ↗
30 Apr 2021
27 Apr 2021
“The Multiverse of Methods: Extending the Multiverse Analysis to Address Data-Collection Decisions”original ↗
26 Apr 2021
Is it really true that “the U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal since the early 1900s—even surpassing the calamity of the 1918 flu pandemic”?original ↗
25 Apr 2021
24 Apr 2021
Cancer patients be criming? Some discussion and meta-discussion of statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science:original ↗
21 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021
A fill-in-the-blanks contest: Attributing the persistence of the $7.25 minimum wage to “the median voter theorem” is as silly as _______________________original ↗
16 Apr 2021
In making minimal corrections and not acknowledging that he made these errors, Rajan is dealing with the symptoms but not the underlying problem, which is that he’s processing recent history via conventional wisdom.original ↗
16 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021
Why did it take so many decades for the behavioral sciences to develop a sense of crisis around methodology and replication?original ↗
9 Apr 2021
Some issues when using MRP to model attitudes on a gun control attitude question on a 1–4 scaleoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2021
Understanding the value of bloc voting, using the Congressional Progressive Caucus as an example:original ↗
7 Apr 2021
Adjusting for differences between treatment and control groups: “statistical significance” and “multiple testing” have nothing to do with itoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2021
The 2019 project: How false beliefs in statistical differences still live in social science and journalism todayoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2021
4 Apr 2021
HCQ: “The clinical trials they summarized were predominantly in young healthy people so even the best drug in the world wouldn’t look good under their framework.”original ↗
4 Apr 2021
More background on our research on constructing an informative prior from a corpus of comparable studiesoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2021
I have these great April Fools ideas but there’s no space for them in the margin of this blogoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
28 Mar 2021
27 Mar 2021
Question on multilevel modeling reminds me that we need a good modeling workflow (building up your model by including varying intercepts, slopes, etc.) and a good computing workfloworiginal ↗
26 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021