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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2014
25 Dec 2014
Trajectories of Achievement Within Race/Ethnicity: “Catching Up” in Achievement Across Timeoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2014
22 Dec 2014
22 Dec 2014
Sokal: “science is not merely a bag of clever tricks . . . Rather, the natural sciences are nothing more or less than one particular application — albeit an unusually successful one — of a more general rationalist worldview”original ↗
20 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014
“Now the company appears to have screwed up badly, and they’ve done it in pretty much exactly the way you would expect a company to screw up when it doesn’t drill down into the data.”original ↗
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014
I like the clever way they tell the story. It’s a straightforward series of graphs but the reader has to figure out where to click and what to do, which makes the experience feel more like a voyage of discovery.original ↗
14 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014
9 Dec 2014
8 Dec 2014
3 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014
A question about varying-intercept, varying-slope multilevel models for cross-national analysisoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2014
29 Nov 2014
28 Nov 2014
Quantitative literacy is tough! Or, I had no idea that, in 1958, 96% of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage!original ↗
27 Nov 2014
I (almost and inadvertently) followed Dan Kahan’s principles in my class today, and that was a good thing (would’ve even been more of a good thing had I realized what I was doing and done it better, but I think I will do better in the future, which has already happened by the time you read this; remember, the blog is on a nearly 2-month lag)original ↗
25 Nov 2014
24 Nov 2014
24 Nov 2014
22 Nov 2014
22 Nov 2014
21 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014
17 Nov 2014
“The Statistical Crisis in Science”: My talk in the psychology department Monday 17 Nov at noonoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2014
If you do an experiment with 700,000 participants, you’ll (a) have no problem with statistical significance, (b) get to call it “massive-scale,” (c) get a chance to publish it in a tabloid top journal. Cool!original ↗
13 Nov 2014
“Patchwriting” is a Wegmanesque abomination but maybe there’s something similar that could be helpful?original ↗
12 Nov 2014
11 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014
“Differences Between Econometrics and Statistics” (my talk this Monday at the University of Pennsylvania econ dept)original ↗
9 Nov 2014
7 Nov 2014
Just imagine if Ed Wegman got his hands on this program—it could do wonders for his research productivity!original ↗
6 Nov 2014
“The Firth bias correction, penalization, and weakly informative priors: A case for log-F priors in logistic and related regressions”original ↗
5 Nov 2014
Social research is not the same as health research: Macartan Humphreys gives new guidelines for ethics in social science researchoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2014
3 Nov 2014
3 Nov 2014
3 Nov 2014
2 Nov 2014
1 Nov 2014
Was it really necessary to do a voting experiment on 300,000 people? Maybe 299,999 would’ve been enough? Or 299,998? Or maybe 2000?original ↗
30 Oct 2014
29 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014