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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2012
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Let’s try this: Instead of saying, “The probability is 75%,” say “There’s a 25% chance I’m wrong”original ↗
5 Nov 2012
Social scientists who use medical analogies to explain causal inference are, I think, implicitly trying to borrow some of the scientific and cultural authority of that field for our own purposesoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2012
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“Communication is a central task of statistics, and ideally a state-of-the-art data analysis can have state-of-the-art displays to match”original ↗
29 Oct 2012
Steven Levitt says that he has a “good indicator” that Aaron Edlin, Noah Kaplan, Nate Silver, and I are “not so smart”original ↗
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An (impressive) increase in survival rate from 50% to 60% corresponds to an R-squared of (only) 1%. Counterintuitive, huh?original ↗
7 Oct 2012
Comparing people from two surveys, one of which is a simple random sample and one of which is notoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2012
High temperatures cause violent crime and implications for climate change, also some suggestions about how to better summarize these claimsoriginal ↗
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“2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”original ↗
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Using the “instrumental variables” or “potential outcomes” approach to clarify causal thinkingoriginal ↗
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One reason New York isn’t as rich as it used to be: Redistribution of federal tax money to other statesoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2012
Cool one-day miniconference at Columbia Fri 12 Oct on computational and online social scienceoriginal ↗
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