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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2013
“Ronald Reagan is a Statistician and Other Examples of Learning From Diverse Sources of Information”original ↗
19 Mar 2013
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Everyone’s trading bias for variance at some point, it’s just done at different places in the analysesoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2013
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“I have no idea who Catalina Garcia is, but she makes a decent ruler”: I don’t know if John Lee “little twerp” Anderson actually suffers from tall-person syndrome, but he is indeed talloriginal ↗
13 Mar 2013
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Watership Down, thick description, applied statistics, immutability of stories, and playing tennis with a netoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2013
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My beef with Brooks: the alternative to “good statistics” is not “no statistics,” it’s “bad statistics”original ↗
20 Feb 2013
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The grasshopper wins, and Greg Mankiw’s grandmother would be “shocked and appalled” all over againoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2013
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That claim that Harvard admissions discriminate in favor of Jews? After seeing the statistics, I don’t see it.original ↗
12 Feb 2013
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Wouldn’t it be cool if Glenn Hubbard were consulting for Herbalife and I were on the other side?original ↗
6 Feb 2013
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Too many MC’s not enough MIC’s, or What principles should govern attempts to summarize bivariate associations in large multivariate datasets?original ↗
4 Feb 2013
Interaction-based feature selection and classification for high-dimensional biological dataoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2013
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28 Jan 2013
if you’re already using sophisticated non-Bayesian methods such as those of Tibshirani, Efron, and others, that Bayes is more of an option than a revolution. But if you’re coming out of a pure hypothesis testing training, then Bayes can be a true revelation. I think that is one reason that many methodologists in psychology are such avid Bayesians: they find the openness and the directness of the Bayesian approach to be so liberating.original ↗
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I don’t believe the paper, “Empirical estimates suggest most published medical research is true.” That is, most published medical research may well be true, but I’m not at all convinced by the analysis being used to support this claim.original ↗
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Is it really true that only 8% of people who buy Herbalife products are Herbalife distributors?original ↗
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