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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2014
Understanding the hot hand, and the myth of the hot hand, and the myth of the myth of the hot hand, and the myth of the myth of the myth of the hot hand, all at the same timeoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014
7 Aug 2014
President of American Association of Buggy-Whip Manufacturers takes a strong stand against internal combustion engine, argues that the so-called “automobile” has “little grounding in theory” and that “results can vary widely based on the particular fuel that is used”original ↗
6 Aug 2014
When doing scientific replication or criticism, collaboration with the original authors is fine but I don’t think it should be a requirement or even an expectationoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2014
4 Aug 2014
31 Jul 2014
The health policy innovation center: how best to move from pilot studies to large-scale practice?original ↗
31 Jul 2014
30 Jul 2014
The Ben Geen case: Did a naive interpretation of a cluster of cases send an innocent nurse to prison until 2035?original ↗
29 Jul 2014
28 Jul 2014
28 Jul 2014
A linguist has a question about sampling when the goal is causal inference from observational dataoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2014
28 Jul 2014
28 Jul 2014
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27 Jul 2014
23 Jul 2014
21 Jul 2014
20 Jul 2014
Differences between econometrics and statistics: From varying treatment effects to utilities, economists seem to like models that are fixed in stone, while statisticians tend to be more comfortable with variationoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014
15 Jul 2014
“Building on theories used to describe magnets, scientists have put together a model that captures something very different . . .”original ↗
14 Jul 2014
14 Jul 2014
14 Jul 2014
13 Jul 2014
11 Jul 2014
8 Jul 2014
7 Jul 2014
5 Jul 2014
“The great advantage of the model-based over the ad hoc approach, it seems to me, is that at any given time we know what we are doing.”original ↗
3 Jul 2014
“Being an informed Bayesian: Assessing prior informativeness and prior–likelihood conflict”original ↗
2 Jul 2014
“Who’s bigger”—the new book that ranks every human on Wikipedia—is more like Bill Simmons than Bill Jamesoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2014
30 Jun 2014
29 Jun 2014
27 Jun 2014
26 Jun 2014
Estimating a customer satisfaction regression, asking only a subset of predictors for each personoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2014
25 Jun 2014
23 Jun 2014
23 Jun 2014
Combining forecasts: Evidence on the relative accuracy of the simple average and Bayesian model averaging for predicting social science problemsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2014
19 Jun 2014
As if we needed another example of lying with statistics and not issuing a correction: bike-share injuriesoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2014
Hurricanes/himmicanes extra: Again with the problematic nature of the scientific publication processoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2014
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12 Jun 2014
Superfast Metrop using data partitioning, from Marco Banterle, Clara Grazian, and Christian Robertoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2014
11 Jun 2014
9 Jun 2014
9 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014