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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2014
6 Jun 2014
5 Jun 2014
Did you buy laundry detergent on their most recent trip to the store? Also comments on scientific publication and yet another suggestion to do a study that allows within-person comparisonsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2014
2 Jun 2014
Jessica Tracy and Alec Beall (authors of the fertile-women-wear-pink study) comment on our Garden of Forking Paths paper, and I comment on their commentsoriginal ↗
31 May 2014
A whole fleet of gremlins: Looking more carefully at Richard Tol’s twice-corrected paper, “The Economic Effects of Climate Change”original ↗
27 May 2014
26 May 2014
26 May 2014
Did Neyman really say of Fisher’s work, “It’s easy to get the right answer if you never define what the question is,” and did Fisher really describe Neyman as “a theorem-proving poseur who wouldn’t recognize real data if it bit him in the ass”?original ↗
23 May 2014
22 May 2014
21 May 2014
Thermodynamic Monte Carlo: Michael Betancourt’s new method for simulating from difficult distributions and evaluating normalizing constantsoriginal ↗
20 May 2014
19 May 2014
19 May 2014
16 May 2014
Bill Easterly vs. Jeff Sachs: What percentage of the recipients didn’t use the free malaria bed nets in Zambia?original ↗
15 May 2014
12 May 2014
12 May 2014
11 May 2014
10 May 2014
Discussion with Steven Pinker on research that is attached to data that are so noisy as to be essentially uninformativeoriginal ↗
8 May 2014
7 May 2014
6 May 2014
5 May 2014
5 May 2014
“The graph clearly shows that mammography adds virtually nothing to survival and if anything, decreases survival (and increases cost and provides unnecessary treatment)”original ↗
3 May 2014
30 Apr 2014
29 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
27 Apr 2014
Sleazy sock puppet can’t stop spamming our discussion of compressed sensing and promoting the work of Xiteng Liuoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2014
Revised statistical standards for evidence (comments to Val Johnson’s comments on our comments on Val’s comments on p-values)original ↗
25 Apr 2014
23 Apr 2014
22 Apr 2014
21 Apr 2014
21 Apr 2014
20 Apr 2014
19 Apr 2014
18 Apr 2014
17 Apr 2014
16 Apr 2014
14 Apr 2014
14 Apr 2014
“If you are primarily motivated to make money, you . . . certainly don’t want to let people know how confused you are by something, or how shallow your knowledge is in certain areas. You want to project an image of mastery and omniscience.”original ↗
12 Apr 2014
“Schools of statistical thoughts are sometimes jokingly likened to religions. This analogy is not perfect—unlike religions, statistical methods have no supernatural content and make essentially no demands on our personal lives. Looking at the comparison from the other direction, it is possible to be agnostic, atheistic, or simply live one’s life without religion, but it is not really possible to do statistics without some philosophy.”original ↗
12 Apr 2014
How literature is like statistical reasoning: Kosara on stories. Gelman and Basbøll on stories.original ↗
7 Apr 2014
7 Apr 2014
5 Apr 2014
I was going to criticize this on blog but I’m just too tired of things like this. What’s really horrible is the news article which takes all this so seriously. My problem is not with people who run regressions and post them on the web—the more the merrier, I say—but with reputable news outlets whose editors should know betteroriginal ↗
4 Apr 2014
2 Apr 2014
31 Mar 2014
31 Mar 2014
References (with code) for Bayesian hierarchical (multilevel) modeling and structural equation modelingoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2014
29 Mar 2014
28 Mar 2014
27 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
24 Mar 2014