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Andrew Gelman

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

2015

He’s skeptical about Neuroskeptic’s skepticismoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2015
Rapid post-publication revieworiginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
On deck this weekoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
“Once I was told to try every possible specification of a dependent variable (count, proportion, binary indicator, you name it) in a regression until I find a significant relationship. That is it, no justification for choosing one specification over another besides finding significance. . . . In another occasion I was asked to re-write a theory section of a paper to reflect an incidental finding from our analysis, so that it shows up as if we were asking a question about the incidental finding aoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
Death of a statisticianoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2015
A Replication in Economics: Does “Genetic Distance” to the US Predict Development?original ↗
19 Dec 2015
Tug of War: Epic battle over data in controversial paper on chronic fatigue syndromeoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2015
More in the sister blogoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
Gathering of philosophers and physicists unaware of modern reconciliation of Bayes and Popperoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
Working Stifforiginal ↗
16 Dec 2015
LaCour and Green 1, This American Life 0original ↗
16 Dec 2015
Mars 1, This American Life 0original ↗
15 Dec 2015
Recently in the sister blogoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2015
Bayesian decision analysis for the drug-approval process (NSFW)original ↗
14 Dec 2015
On deck this weekoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2015
Jökull Snæbjarnarson writes . . .original ↗
13 Dec 2015
1 cool trick for defining conditional probabilityoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2015
My talks at Nipsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
“Baby Boomer” as an inaccurate, all-purpose insultoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
More on prior distributions for climate sensitivityoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2015
Why I decided not to enter the $100,000 global warming time-series challengeoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2015
Fun media requestsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2015
Hierarchical modeling when you have only 2 groups: I still think it’s a good idea, you just need an informative prior on the group-level variationoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2015
Probabilistic Integrationoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2015
Use of Jeffreys prior in estimating climate sensitivityoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
On deck this weekoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
NYC Stan meetup 12 Decemberoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
Cannabis/IQ follow-up: Same old storyoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2015
Judea Pearl and I briefly discuss extrapolation, causal inference, and hierarchical modelingoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2015
Stan at NIPS 2015original ↗
5 Dec 2015
Syllabus for my course on design and analysis of sample surveysoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
Questions about data transplanted in kidney studyoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
Why are we such a litigious society?original ↗
3 Dec 2015
Rogue historian just can’t stop can’t stop copying copying copyingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2015
Garry is 50 years old. He is a chess player who is also active in a political movement.original ↗
2 Dec 2015
Symposium on Population Inference at Johns Hopkins University, Friday February 26, 2016original ↗
1 Dec 2015
How does Brad Cooper analyze hierarchical survey data with post-stratification?original ↗
1 Dec 2015
7 tips for work-life balanceoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Comedy book with surefire can’t-miss formula, missesoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2015
You’ll never believe what this girl wrote in her diary (NSFW)original ↗
27 Nov 2015
“iPredict to close after Govt refuses anti-money laundering law exemption”original ↗
26 Nov 2015
Boston Stan meetup 1 Decoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2015
Gary McClelland agrees with me that dichotomizing continuous variables is a bad idea. He also thinks my suggestion of dividing a variable into 3 parts is also a mistake.original ↗
25 Nov 2015
Beyond the median split: Splitting a predictor into 3 partsoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2015
I already know who will be president in 2016 but I’m not tellingoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2015
Top 9 questions to ask a statisticianoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2015
If a study is worth a mention, it’s worth a linkoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2015
Flatten your abs with this new statistical approach to quadratureoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2015
Benford lays down the Laworiginal ↗
21 Nov 2015
4 California faculty positions in Design-Based Statistical Inference in the Social Sciencesoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2015
Stan Puzzle 2: Distance Matrix Parametersoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2015
Tip o’ the iceberg to yaoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2015
I like the Monkey Cageoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2015
First, second, and third order bias corrections (also, my ugly R code for the mortality-rate graphs!)original ↗
18 Nov 2015
Pareto smoothed importance sampling and infinite variance (2nd ed)original ↗
18 Nov 2015
“David Brooks And Jeremy Paxman To Judge The Golden Giraffes”original ↗
17 Nov 2015
Just Filling in the Bubblesoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2015
Is 8+4 less than 3? 11% of respondents say Yes!original ↗
16 Nov 2015
Asking the question is the most important steporiginal ↗
16 Nov 2015
Why is it so hard for them to acknowledge a correction?original ↗
15 Nov 2015
“Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?”original ↗
15 Nov 2015
Inference from an intervention with many outcomes, not using “statistical significance”original ↗
14 Nov 2015
Hanging Chadoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2015
Bayesian Computing: Adventures on the Efficient Frontieroriginal ↗
13 Nov 2015
Pass the popcornoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2015
Taleb’s Precautionary Principle: Should we be scared of GMOs?original ↗
11 Nov 2015
Death rates have been increasing for middle-aged white women, decreasing for menoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2015
“Using prediction markets to estimate the reproducibility of scientific research”original ↗
9 Nov 2015
Pathological liars I have knownoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2015
You won’t believe these stunning transformations: How to parameterize hyperpriors in hierarchical models?original ↗
8 Nov 2015
3 new priors you can’t do without, for coefficients and variance parameters in multilevel regressionoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2015
This is a workshop you can’t miss: DataMeetsVizoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2015
What happened to mortality among 45-54-year-old white non-Hispanics? It declined from 1989 to 1999, increased from 1999 to 2005, and held steady after that.original ↗
7 Nov 2015
Age adjustment mortality updateoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
Correcting statistical biases in “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century”: We need to adjust for the increase in average age of people in the 45-54 categoryoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
4 for 4.0 — The Latest JAGSoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
Why Retraction Watch remains necessaryoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2015
Econometrics: Instrument locally, extrapolate globallyoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2015
Hey—looky here! This business wants to hire a Stan expert for decision making.original ↗
4 Nov 2015
The tabloids strike againoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2015
“Another reminder that David Brooks is very good at being David Brooks”original ↗
4 Nov 2015
Neuroscience research in Baltimoreoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2015
My job here is doneoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2015
Stop screaming already: Exaggeration of effects of fan distraction in NCAA basketballoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2015
On deck this weekoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2015
2 new thoughts on Cauchy priors for logistic regression coefficientsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2015
The Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociologyoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2015
Are you ready for some smashmouth FOOTBALL?original ↗
30 Oct 2015
“How does peer review shape science?”original ↗
30 Oct 2015
You won’t be able to stop staring at this original Hot Hand preprintoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2015
Hi-tech hoops: Characterizing the spatial structure of defensive skill in professional basketballoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2015
Super-topical NBA post!!!original ↗
27 Oct 2015
Workshop on replication in economicsoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
Don’t miss this one: “Modern Physics from an Elementary Point of View”original ↗
26 Oct 2015
On deck this weekoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
Top 5 movies about scientistsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2015
Meet the 1 doctor in America who has no opinion on whether cigarette smoking contributes to lung cancer in human beings.original ↗
24 Oct 2015
3 reasons why you can’t always use predictive performance to choose among modelsoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2015
3 postdoc opportunities you can’t miss—here in our group at Columbia! Apply NOW, don’t miss out!original ↗
22 Oct 2015
The answer to my previous questionoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2015
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