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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2017
It’s not so hard to move away from hypothesis testing and toward a Bayesian approach of “embracing variation and accepting uncertainty.”original ↗
5 Apr 2017
5 Apr 2017
“Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo” (Michael Betancourt’s talk this Thurs at Columbia)original ↗
4 Apr 2017
4 Apr 2017
No evidence that providing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California decreases traffic safetyoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2017
Aggregate age-adjusted trends in death rates for non-Hispanic whites and minorities in the U.S.original ↗
31 Mar 2017
30 Mar 2017
Easier-to-download graphs of age-adjusted mortality trends by sex, ethnicity, and age grouporiginal ↗
29 Mar 2017
29 Mar 2017
27 Mar 2017
Probability and Statistics in the Study of Voting and Public Opinion (my talk at the Columbia Applied Probability and Risk seminar, 30 Mar at 1pm)original ↗
27 Mar 2017
26 Mar 2017
Let’s accept the idea that treatment effects vary—not as something special but just as a matter of courseoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017
This could be a big deal: the overuse of psychotropic medications for advanced Alzheimer’s patientsoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017
Clarke’s Law: Any sufficiently crappy research is indistinguishable from fraud (Pizzagate edition)original ↗
20 Mar 2017
Whassup, Pace investigators? You’re still hiding your data. C’mon dudes, loosen up. We’re getting chronic fatigue waiting for you already!original ↗
19 Mar 2017
“Bias” and “variance” are two ways of looking at the same thing. (“Bias” is conditional, “variance” is unconditional.)original ↗
18 Mar 2017
17 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017
Cage match: Null-hypothesis-significance-testing meets incrementalism. Nobody comes out alive.original ↗
15 Mar 2017
14 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
12 Mar 2017
Expectation propagation as a way of life: A framework for Bayesian inference on partitioned dataoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2017
Applying statistics in science will likely remain unreasonably difficult in my life time: but I have no intention of changing careers.original ↗
8 Mar 2017
8 Mar 2017
A fistful of Stan case studies: divergences and bias, identifying mixtures, and weakly informative priorsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2017
Hey! Can you guess the 3 goofy tricks that this new journal is trying to improve peer review?original ↗
6 Mar 2017
6 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017
Yes, it makes sense to do design analysis (“power calculations”) after the data have been collectedoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2017
2 Mar 2017
1 Mar 2017
Theoretical statistics is the theory of applied statistics: how to think about what we do (My talk Wednesday—today!—4:15pm at the Harvard statistics dept)original ↗
1 Mar 2017
28 Feb 2017
Research fellow, postdoc, and PhD positions in probabilistic modeling and machine learning in Finlandoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2017
27 Feb 2017
25 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017
22 Feb 2017
22 Feb 2017
Looking for rigor in all the wrong places (my talk this Thursday in the Columbia economics department)original ↗
21 Feb 2017
Should the Problems with Polls Make Us Worry about the Quality of Health Surveys? (my talk at CDC tomorrow)original ↗
20 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017
“Luckily, medicine is a practice that ignores the requirements of science in favor of patient care.”original ↗
19 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017
Krzysztof Sakrejda speaks in NYC on Bayesian hierarchical survival-type model for Dengue infectionoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2017
16 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017
14 Feb 2017
13 Feb 2017
Authority figures in psychology spread more happy talk, still don’t get the point that much of the published, celebrated, and publicized work in their field is no goodoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2017
I was gonna write a post entitled, “Unlocking past collaboration: student use affects mood and happiness,” but it didn’t seem worth the botheroriginal ↗
8 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017
You can fit hidden Markov models in Stan (and thus, also in Stata! and Python! and R! and Julia! and Matlab!)original ↗
7 Feb 2017
Theoretical statistics is the theory of applied statistics: how to think about what we do (My talk at the University of Michigan this Friday 3pm)original ↗
7 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017