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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2014
Sailing between the Scylla of hyping of sexy research and the Charybdis of reflexive skepticismoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2014
21 Oct 2014
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18 Oct 2014
14 Oct 2014
In one of life’s horrible ironies, I wrote a paper “Why we (usually) don’t have to worry about multiple comparisons” but now I spend lots of time worrying about multiple comparisonsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
14 Oct 2014
12 Oct 2014
11 Oct 2014
10 Oct 2014
When there’s a lot of variation, it can be a mistake to make statements about “typical” attitudesoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2014
7 Oct 2014
“Regular Customer: It was so much easier when I was a bum. I didn’t have to wake up at 4am to go to work, didn’t have all these bills and girlfriends.”original ↗
6 Oct 2014
6 Oct 2014
6 Oct 2014
Anova is great—if you interpret it as a way of structuring a model, not if you focus on F testsoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2014
1 Oct 2014
30 Sept 2014
30 Sept 2014
Some general principles of Bayesian data analysis, arising from a Stan analysis of John Lee Anderson’s heightoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2014
29 Sept 2014
27 Sept 2014
26 Sept 2014
Free Stan T-shirt to the first “little twerp” who does a (good) Bayesian analysis of Jon Lee Anderson’s heightoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2014
25 Sept 2014
25 Sept 2014
Why I’m still not persuaded by the claim that subliminal smiley-faces can have big effects on political attitudesoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
22 Sept 2014
What does CNN have in common with Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, and Richard Tol: They all made foolish, embarrassing errors that would never have happened had they been using R Markdownoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2014
18 Sept 2014
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12 Sept 2014
11 Sept 2014
“It’s as if you went into a bathroom in a bar and saw a guy pissing on his shoes, and instead of thinking he has some problem with his aim, you suppose he has a positive utility for getting his shoes wet”original ↗
10 Sept 2014
9 Sept 2014
My talk with David Schiminovich this Wed noon: “The Birth of the Universe and the Fate of the Earth: One Trillion UV Photons Meet Stan”original ↗
8 Sept 2014
8 Sept 2014
7 Sept 2014
How does inference for next year’s data differ from inference for unobserved data from the current year?original ↗
6 Sept 2014
I disagree with Alan Turing and Daniel Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidenceoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2014
1 Sept 2014
30 Aug 2014
When we talk about the “file drawer,” let’s not assume that an experiment can easily be characterized as producing strong, mixed, or weak resultsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2014
28 Aug 2014
Discussion of “A probabilistic model for the spatial distribution of party support in multiparty elections”original ↗
27 Aug 2014
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