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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2021
19 Jan 2021
18 Jan 2021
17 Jan 2021
You’re a data scientist at a local hospital and you’ve been asked to present to the physicians on communicating statistical information to patients. What should you say?original ↗
16 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021
Routine hospital-based SARS-CoV-2 testing outperforms state-based data in predicting clinical burden.original ↗
13 Jan 2021
“A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic” . . . how’s that one going, Freakonomics team?original ↗
11 Jan 2021
Include all design information as predictors in your regression model, then postratify if necessary. No need to include survey weights: the information that goes into the weights will be used in any poststratification that is done.original ↗
10 Jan 2021
“Enhancing Academic Freedom and Transparency in Publishing Through Post-Publication Debate”: Some examples in the study of political conflictoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021
NYT editor described columnists as “people who are paid to have very, very strong convictions, and to believe that they’re right.”original ↗
6 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021
Megan Higgs (statistician) and Anna Dreber (economist) on how to judge the success of a replicationoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021
“Maybe the better analogy is that these people are museum curators and we’re telling them that their precious collection of Leonardos, which they have been augmenting at a rate of about one per month, include some fakes.”original ↗
3 Jan 2021
2 Jan 2021
2020
31 Dec 2020
30 Dec 2020
Retired computer science professor argues that decisions are being made by “algorithms that are mathematically incapable of bias.” What does this mean?original ↗
29 Dec 2020
28 Dec 2020
“End of novel. Beginning of job.”: That point at which you make the decision to stop thinking and start finishingoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2020
Does regression discontinuity (or, more generally, causal identification + statistical significance) make you gullible?original ↗
27 Dec 2020
26 Dec 2020
26 Dec 2020
Flaxman et al. respond to criticisms of their estimates of effects of anti-coronavirus policiesoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020
BREAKING: MasterClass Announces NEW Class on Science of Sleep by Neuroscientist & Sleep Expert Matthew Walker – Available NOWoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020
20 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020
In this particular battle between physicists and economists, I’m taking the economists’ side.original ↗
19 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020
Literally a textbook problem: if you get a positive COVID test, how likely is it that it’s a false positive?original ↗
16 Dec 2020
13 Dec 2020
17 state attorney generals, 100 congressmembers, and the Association for Psychological Science walk into a baroriginal ↗
12 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020
Unlike MIT, Scientific American does the right thing and flags an inaccurate and irresponsible article that they mistakenly published. Here’s the story:original ↗
7 Dec 2020
Are we constantly chasing after these population-level effects of these non-pharmaceutical interventions that are hard to isolate when there are many good reasons to believe in their efficacy in the first instance?original ↗
6 Dec 2020
5 Dec 2020
Discussion of uncertainties in the coronavirus mask study leads us to think about some issues . . .original ↗
4 Dec 2020
How to think about correlation? It’s the slope of the regression when x and y have been standardized.original ↗
3 Dec 2020
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo using an adjoint-differentiated Laplace approximation: Bayesian inference for latent Gaussian models and beyondoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020
Basbøll’s Audenesque paragraph on science writing, followed by a resurrection of a 10-year-old debate on Gladwelloriginal ↗
30 Nov 2020
“We’ve got to look at the analyses, the real granular data. It’s always tough when you’re looking at a press release to figure out what’s going on.”original ↗
29 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020
Bishops of the Holy Church of Embodied Cognition and editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Christoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2020
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