Blog · corpus.blog/blogs/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/posts
Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2015
“The psychologists are getting a hard time for doing what they do, whereas people doing real harm to society are happily roaming around like free range chicken”original ↗
8 Jun 2015
8 Jun 2015
What to do to train to apply statistical models to political science and public policy issuesoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015
1 Jun 2015
The greatest impediment to research progress is not impediments to research progress, it is scientists reading about impediments to research progressoriginal ↗
31 May 2015
“With that assurance, a scientist can report his or her work to the public, and the public can trust the work.”original ↗
30 May 2015
John Bohannon’s chocolate-and-weight-loss hoax study actually understates the problems with standard p-value scientific practiceoriginal ↗
29 May 2015
25 May 2015
23 May 2015
Can talk therapy halve the rate of cancer recurrence? How to think about the statistical significance of this finding? Is it just another example of the garden of forking paths?original ↗
21 May 2015
BREAKING . . . Princeton decides to un-hire Kim Jong-Un for tenure-track assistant professorship in aeronautical engineeringoriginal ↗
21 May 2015
“In my previous post on the topic, I expressed surprise at the published claim but no skepticism”original ↗
20 May 2015
19 May 2015
18 May 2015
17 May 2015
16 May 2015
The connection between varying treatment effects and the well-known optimism of published research findingsoriginal ↗
14 May 2015
13 May 2015
12 May 2015
11 May 2015
9 May 2015
A causal-inference version of a statistics problem: If you fit a regression model with interactions, and the underlying process has an interaction, your coefficients won’t be directly interpretableoriginal ↗
4 May 2015
4 May 2015
4 May 2015
Forget about pdf: this looks much better, it makes all my own papers look like kids’ crayon drawings by comparison.original ↗
3 May 2015
“The general problem I have with noninformatively-derived Bayesian probabilities is that they tend to be too strong.”original ↗
1 May 2015
There are 6 ways to get rejected from PLOS: (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) having no male co-authorsoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2015
30 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015
A message from the vice chairman of surgery at Columbia University: “Garcinia Camboja. It may be the simple solution you’ve been looking for to bust your body fat for good.”original ↗
22 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015
19 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015
Why do we communicate probability calculations so poorly, even when we know how to do it better?original ↗
13 Apr 2015
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7 Apr 2015