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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2019
“Beyond ‘Treatment Versus Control’: How Bayesian Analysis Makes Factorial Experiments Feasible in Education Research”original ↗
13 Aug 2019
Here are some examples of real-world statistical analyses that don’t use p-values and significance testing.original ↗
12 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019
For each parameter (or other qoi), compare the posterior sd to the prior sd. If the posterior sd for any parameter (or qoi) is more than 0.1 times the prior sd, then print out a note: “The prior distribution for this parameter is informative.”original ↗
10 Aug 2019
“Study finds ‘Growth Mindset’ intervention taking less than an hour raises grades for ninth graders”original ↗
8 Aug 2019
Holes in Bayesian Philosophy: My talk for the philosophy of statistics conference this Wed.original ↗
5 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019
Allowing intercepts and slopes to vary in a logistic regression: how does this change the ROC curve?original ↗
3 Aug 2019
Causal Inference and Generalizing from Your Data to the Real World (my talk tomorrow, Sat., 6pm in Berlin)original ↗
2 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019
“This is a case where frequentist methods are simple and mostly work well, and the Bayesian analogs look unpleasant, requiring inference on lots of nuisance parameters that frequentists can bypass.”original ↗
31 Jul 2019
Concerned about demand effects in psychology experiments? Incorporate them into the design.original ↗
29 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019
27 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019
24 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019
Alison Mattek on physics and psychology, philosophy, models, explanations, and formalizationoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2019
A rise in premature publications among politically engaged researchers may be linked to Trump’s election, study saysoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2019
18 Jul 2019
18 Jul 2019
Gigerenzer: “The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics,” including discussion of political implicationsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2019
13 Jul 2019
They’re looking to hire someone with good working knowledge of Bayesian inference algorithms development for multilevel statistical models and mathematical modeling of physiological systems.original ↗
12 Jul 2019
9 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a computer, calculating the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin—forever.original ↗
6 Jul 2019
This is a great example for a statistics class, or a class on survey sampling, or a political science classoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2019
2 Jul 2019
What if that regression-discontinuity paper had only reported local linear model results, and with no graph?original ↗
30 Jun 2019
And, if we really want to get real, let’s be open to the possibility that the effect is positive for some people in some scenarios, and negative for other people in other scenarios, and that in the existing state of our knowledge, we can’t say much about where the effect is positive and where it is negative.original ↗
24 Jun 2019
22 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019
“The writer who confesses that he is ‘not good at attention to detail’ is like a pianist who admits to being tone deaf”original ↗
20 Jun 2019
I agree it’s a problem but it doesn’t surprise me. It’s pretty random what these tabloids publish, as they get so many submissions.original ↗
19 Jun 2019
Causal inference: I recommend the classical approach in which an observational study is understood in reference to a hypothetical controlled experimentoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2019
The publication asymmetry: What happens if the New England Journal of Medicine publishes something that you think is wrong?original ↗
17 Jun 2019
16 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019
13 Jun 2019
5 Jun 2019