Blog · corpus.blog/blogs/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/posts
Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2018
2 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018
What do you do when someone says, “The quote is, this is the exact quote”—and then misquotes you?original ↗
30 Sept 2018
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Regrets Its Decision to Hire Cannibal P-hacker as Writer-at-Largeoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2018
28 Sept 2018
Postdoc position: Stan and composite mechanistic and data-driven models of cellular metabolismoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2018
(People are missing the point on Wansink, so) what’s the lesson we should be drawing from this story?original ↗
27 Sept 2018
A potential big problem with placebo tests in econometrics: they’re subject to the “difference between significant and non-significant is not itself statistically significant” issueoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2018
Job opening at CDC: “The Statistician will play a central role in guiding the statistical methods of all major projects of the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch of the CDC Influenza Division, and aid in designing, analyzing, and interpreting research intended to understand the burden of influenza in the US and internationally and identify the best influenza vaccines and vaccine strategies.”original ↗
26 Sept 2018
A psychology researcher uses Stan, multiverse, and open data exploration to explore human memoryoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2018
A couple more papers on genetic diversity as an explanation for why Africa and remote Andean countries are so poor while Europe and North America are so wealthyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2018
18 Sept 2018
Why, oh why, do so many people embrace the Pacific Garbage Cleanup nonsense? (I have a theory).original ↗
18 Sept 2018
What to do when your measured outcome doesn’t quite line up with what you’re interested in?original ↗
17 Sept 2018
High-profile statistical errors occur in the physical sciences too, it’s not just a problem in social science.original ↗
15 Sept 2018
13 Sept 2018
12 Sept 2018
11 Sept 2018
9 Sept 2018
“It’s Always Sunny in Correlationville: Stories in Science,” or, Science should not be a game of Botticellioriginal ↗
8 Sept 2018
6 Sept 2018
British journalists not running corrections and talking about putting people in the freezeroriginal ↗
5 Sept 2018
“We continuously increased the number of animals until statistical significance was reached to support our conclusions” . . . I think this is not so bad, actually!original ↗
4 Sept 2018
3 Sept 2018
John Hattie’s “Visible Learning”: How much should we trust this influential review of education research?original ↗
1 Sept 2018
“Identification of and correction for publication bias,” and another discussion of how forking paths is not the same thing as file draweroriginal ↗
31 Aug 2018
28 Aug 2018
“To get started, I suggest coming up with a simple but reasonable model for missingness, then simulate fake complete data followed by a fake missingness pattern, and check that you can recover your missing-data model and your complete data model in that fake-data situation. You can then proceed from there. But if you can’t even do it with fake data, you’re sunk.”original ↗
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018
19 Aug 2018
Three informal case studies: (1) Monte Carlo EM, (2) a new approach to C++ matrix autodiff with closures, (3) C++ serialization via parameter packsoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018
11 Aug 2018
9 Aug 2018
“The most important aspect of a statistical analysis is not what you do with the data, it’s what data you use” (survey adjustment edition)original ↗
7 Aug 2018
Response to Rafa: Why I don’t think ROC [receiver operating characteristic] works as a model for scienceoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2018
4 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018
31 Jul 2018
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27 Jul 2018