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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2016
Fast analysis, soft statistics, and junk data intake is unrelated to research quality for 0% of American scientistsoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2016
20 Feb 2016
20 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016
“What is Bayesian data analysis? Some examples”: My lecture at the New School this Wed noonoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016
13 Feb 2016
Arrow’s Theorem in the news: Sleazy-ass political scientists cut-and-paste their way to 3 publications from the same materialoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2016
In general, hypothesis testing is overrated and hypothesis generation is underrated, so it’s fine for these data to be collected with exploration in mind.original ↗
11 Feb 2016
9 Feb 2016
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016
3 Feb 2016
3 Feb 2016
1 Feb 2016
TOP SECRET: Newly declassified documents on evaluating models based on predictive accuracyoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2016
One thing I like about hierarchical modeling is that is not just about criticism. It’s a way to improve inferences, not just a way to adjust p-values.original ↗
29 Jan 2016
The time-reversal heuristic—a new way to think about a published finding that is followed up by a large, preregistered replication (in context of claims about power pose)original ↗
26 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016
2 new reasons not to trust published p-values: You won’t believe what this rogue economist has to say.original ↗
24 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016
18 Jan 2016
The devil really is in the details; or, You’ll be able to guess who I think are the good guys and who I think are the bad guys in this story, but I think it’s still worth telling because it provides some insight into how (some) scientists view statisticsoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2016
16 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016
13 Jan 2016
13 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016
10 Jan 2016
9 Jan 2016
Read this to change your entire perspective on statistics: Why inversion of hypothesis tests is not a general procedure for creating uncertainty intervalsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2016
2 Jan 2016
Vitamin pill shocker: “A complex web of vested interests promote calcium and vitamin D for osteoporosis, despite lack of evidence”original ↗
1 Jan 2016
2015
31 Dec 2015
Guess what today’s kids are clicking on: My presentation at the Electronic Conference on Teaching Statisticsoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015
Citation shocker: “The lifecycle of scholarly articles across fields of economic research”original ↗
28 Dec 2015
There are 6 ways to get fired from Johnson & Johnson: (1) theft, (2) sexual harassment, (3) running an experiment without a control group, (4) keeping a gambling addict away from the casino, (5) chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and (6) not covering up records of side effects of a drug you’re marketing to kidsoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2015
26 Dec 2015
Turbulent Studies, Rocky Statistics: Publicational Consequences of Experiencing Inferential Instabilityoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2015
You’ll never guess how we answer this question: “Am I doing myself a disservice by being too idealistic in a corporate environment?”original ↗
24 Dec 2015
23 Dec 2015