Blog · corpus.blog/blogs/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/posts
Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2018
22 May 2018
How to think about research, and research criticism, and research criticism criticism, and research criticism criticism criticism?original ↗
17 May 2018
No, there is no epidemic of loneliness. (Or, Dog Bites Man: David Brooks runs another column based on fake stats)original ↗
16 May 2018
“Eureka bias”: When you think you made a discovery and then you don’t want to give it up, even if it turns out you interpreted your data wrongoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
15 May 2018
Could you say that again less clearly, please? A general-purpose data garbler for applications requiring confidentialityoriginal ↗
13 May 2018
12 May 2018
11 May 2018
8 May 2018
6 May 2018
5 May 2018
4 May 2018
How about zero-excluding priors for hierarchical variance parameters to improve computation for full Bayesian inference?original ↗
4 May 2018
Doomsday! Problems with interpreting a confidence interval when there is no evidence for the assumed sampling modeloriginal ↗
4 May 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 ↗
2 May 2018
2 May 2018
A model for scientific research programmes that include both “exploratory phenomenon-driven research” and “theory-testing science”original ↗
1 May 2018
27 Apr 2018
26 Apr 2018
A quick rule of thumb is that when someone seems to be acting like a jerk, an economist will defend the behavior as being the essence of morality, but when someone seems to be doing something nice, an economist will raise the bar and argue that he’s not being nice at all.original ↗
26 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018
22 Apr 2018
19 Apr 2018
Postdoc opportunity at AstraZeneca in Cambridge, England, in Bayesian Machine Learning using Stan!original ↗
19 Apr 2018
Psychometrics corner: They want to fit a multilevel model instead of running 37 separate correlation analysesoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2018
19 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018
Fixing the reproducibility crisis: Openness, Increasing sample size, and Preregistration ARE NOT ENUF!!!!original ↗
15 Apr 2018
It’s all about Hurricane Andrew: Do patterns in post-disaster donations demonstrate egotism?original ↗
13 Apr 2018
Do Statistical Methods Have an Expiration Date? (my talk noon Mon 16 Apr at the University of Pennsylvania)original ↗
12 Apr 2018
11 Apr 2018
11 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018
More bad news in the scientific literature: A 3-day study is called “long term,” and nobody even seems to notice the problem. Whassup with that??original ↗
5 Apr 2018
“The Internal and External Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Meta-Analysis of 15 Within-Study-Comparisons”original ↗
4 Apr 2018
3 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018
30 Mar 2018
30 Mar 2018
29 Mar 2018
The problem with those studies that claim large and consistent effects from small and irrelevant inputsoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2018
Bayesian inference for A/B testing: Lauren Kennedy and I speak at the NYC Women in Machine Learning and Data Science meetup tomorrow (Tues 27 Mar) 7pmoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2018
26 Mar 2018
An economist wrote in, asking why it would make sense to fit Bayesian hierarchical models instead of frequentist random effects.original ↗
24 Mar 2018
23 Mar 2018
23 Mar 2018
“It’s not just that the emperor has no clothes, it’s more like the emperor has been standing in the public square for fifteen years screaming, I’m naked! I’m naked! Look at me! And the scientific establishment is like, Wow, what a beautiful outfit.”original ↗
22 Mar 2018
The moral hazard of quantitative social science: Causal identification, statistical inference, and policyoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018