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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2025
What day of the year will have the fewest noninduced births? (Difference between mathematical and statistical reasoning)original ↗
21 Apr 2025
Buy your Tesla at closing time: For 15 years, these stocks have been mildly fluctuating during the day and shooting up overnight.original ↗
19 Apr 2025
18 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025
The hinge function provided “a tractable solution to an important and long standing problem in the field of fluvial geomorphology–the prediction of bedload sediment transport in rivers.” How cool is that?original ↗
15 Apr 2025
“No Vehicles in the Park”: A multilevel-model computing saga (including some Bayesian workflow)original ↗
14 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025
9 Apr 2025
9 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025
Causality and Crime: In science as in genre storytelling, the thrill of the unexpected can only come with reference to (and in confounding) some preexisting norm.original ↗
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025
We have here two papers that are critical of the culture of academic economics. Where can they be published?original ↗
24 Mar 2025
You can learn a lot from a simple simulation (example of experimental design with unequal variances for treatment and control data)original ↗
21 Mar 2025
Ph.D. student position on extreme precipitation in a changing cold climate! Using Bayesian modeling and computation! At the University of Iceland!original ↗
21 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025
What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden.original ↗
16 Mar 2025
Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things)original ↗
13 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025
9 Mar 2025
“A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”original ↗
8 Mar 2025
The answer to the how-many-significant-digits problem is the same as the answer to the what-to-graph problem: The click-through solutionoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2025
No, an election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up.” No, the election forecasters in 2024 did not say, “Whatever happened, it was supposed to be razor thin.”original ↗
5 Mar 2025
4 Mar 2025
“On or about December 2010 the behavioral sciences changed” and Eggers on The case against Hypothesis 1original ↗
2 Mar 2025
Experts can see for miles; non-experts are walking around in the tall grass and can’t see past their next step. When it comes to geometry, I’m no expert.original ↗
27 Feb 2025
Our proposal for scheduled post-publication review: “Even if each review took twice the effort of the average pre-publication review, our system would add only 1 percent to the total reviewing effort, while providing important perspectives on papers representing more than one-quarter of the citations received by these influential journals.”original ↗
26 Feb 2025
You can nominate someone for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Awardoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025
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20 Feb 2025
Clive James on Charade: What to think when someone you admire has different tastes than you?original ↗
18 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025
16 Feb 2025
Conflicts of interest in vaping studies. (Yes, researchers will risk their professional reputations out of some combination of political motivations, irritation, and money.)original ↗
15 Feb 2025
Maybe they should just write some papers about their priors and not mess around with actual data!original ↗
14 Feb 2025