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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2013
18 Oct 2013
17 Oct 2013
16 Oct 2013
15 Oct 2013
13 Oct 2013
12 Oct 2013
Discussion with Dan Kahan on political polarization, partisan information processing. And, more generally, the role of theory in empirical social scienceoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2013
Scientific communication that accords you “the basic human dignity of allowing you to draw your own conclusions”original ↗
4 Oct 2013
3 Oct 2013
Bayes alert! Cool postdoc position here on missing data imputation and applications in health disparities research!original ↗
2 Oct 2013
1 Oct 2013
Using the aggregate of the outcome variable as a group-level predictor in a hierarchical modeloriginal ↗
30 Sept 2013
Query from a textbook author – looking for stories to tell to undergrads about significanceoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2013
Difficulties of using statistical significance (or lack thereof) to sift through and compare research hypothesesoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2013
27 Sept 2013
Difficulties in making inferences about scientific truth from distributions of published p-valuesoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2013
25 Sept 2013
25 Sept 2013
25 Sept 2013
“Instead of the intended message that being poor is hard, the takeaway is that rich people aren’t very good with money.”original ↗
24 Sept 2013
23 Sept 2013
20 Sept 2013
Is coffee a killer? I don’t think the effect is as high as was estimated from the highest number that came out of a noisy studyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
18 Sept 2013
Christian Robert on the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox; more generally, it’s good news when philosophical arguments can be transformed into technical modeling issuesoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2013
He’s adult entertainer, Child educator, King of the crossfader, He’s the greatest of the greater, He’s a big bad wolf in your neighborhood, Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning goodoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2013
15 Sept 2013
14 Sept 2013
13 Sept 2013
12 Sept 2013
Does it matter that a sample is unrepresentative? It depends on the size of the treatment interactionsoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2013
3 Sept 2013
“Il y a beaucoup de candidats démocrates, et leurs idéologies ne sont pas très différentes. Et la participation est imprévisible.”original ↗
2 Sept 2013
30 Aug 2013
29 Aug 2013
25 Aug 2013
A lot of statistical methods have this flavor, that they are a solution to a mathematical problem that has been posed without a careful enough sense of whether the problem is worth solving in the first placeoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2013
Somebody’s looking for a book on time series analysis in the style of Angrist and Pischke, or Gelman and Hilloriginal ↗
17 Aug 2013
16 Aug 2013
Learning about correlations using cross-sectional and over-time comparisons between and within countriesoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2013
15 Aug 2013
13 Aug 2013
11 Aug 2013
10 Aug 2013
9 Aug 2013
7 Aug 2013
When you’re planning on fitting a model, build up to it by fitting simpler models first. Then, once you have a model you like, check the hell out of itoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2013
6 Aug 2013