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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2021
Postdoctoral opportunity with Sarah Cowan and Jennifer Hill: causal inference for Universal Basic Income (UBI)original ↗
16 Mar 2021
The garden of forking paths: Why multiple comparisons can be a problem, even when there is no “fishing expedition” or “p-hacking” and the research hypothesis was posited ahead of timeoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
PhD student and postdoc positions in Norway for doing Bayesian causal inference using Stan!original ↗
16 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021
14 Mar 2021
No, I don’t like talk of false positive false negative etc but it can still be useful to warn people about systematic biases in meta-analysisoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021
Regression discontinuity analysis is often a disaster. So what should you do instead? Here’s my recommendation:original ↗
11 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021
“The presumption of wisdom and/or virtue causes intellectuals to personalize situations where contending ideas are involved.”original ↗
10 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021
6 Mar 2021
5 Mar 2021
A new approach to pandemic control by informing people of their social distance from exposureoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2021
“I looked for questions on the polio vaccine and saw one in 1954 that asked if you wanted to get it—60% said yes and 31% no.”original ↗
28 Feb 2021
27 Feb 2021
26 Feb 2021
26 Feb 2021
25 Feb 2021
Should we judge pundits based on their demonstrated willingness to learn from their mistakes?original ↗
24 Feb 2021
22 Feb 2021
21 Feb 2021
Statisticians don’t use statistical evidence to decide what statistical methods to use. Also, The Way of the Physicist.original ↗
21 Feb 2021
20 Feb 2021
Postdoc in Paris for Bayesian models in genetics . . . differential equation models in Stanoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021
“Our underpowered trial provides no indication that X has a positive or negative effect on Y”original ↗
14 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021
Further comments on “Assessing mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID‐19”original ↗
10 Feb 2021
My thoughts on “What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers”original ↗
8 Feb 2021
Nudgelords: Given their past track record, why should I trust them this time? (Don’t call me Stasi)original ↗
7 Feb 2021
The “story time” is to lull us in with a randomized controlled experiment and as we fall asleep, feed us less reliable conclusions that come from an embedded observational study.original ↗
4 Feb 2021
New research suggests: “Targeting interventions – including transmission-blocking vaccines – to adults aged 20-49 is an important consideration in halting resurgent epidemics and preventing COVID-19-attributable deaths.”original ↗
3 Feb 2021
Will the pandemic cause a decline in births? We’ll be able to resolve this particular debate in about 9 months . . .original ↗
2 Feb 2021
About that claim that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived”original ↗
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021
The textbook paradox: “Textbooks more than a very few years old cannot even be given away, but new textbooks are mostly made by copying from former ones”original ↗
27 Jan 2021
26 Jan 2021
25 Jan 2021
25 Jan 2021
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