You can guarantee that the term “statistical guarantee” will irritate me. Here’s why, and let’s go into some details.
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“What do we need from a probabilistic programming language to support Bayesian workflow?”
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Grappling with uncertainty in forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election
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“A Columbia Surgeon’s Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data.” . . . and it appears that he’s still at Columbia!
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Obnoxious receipt from Spirit Airlines
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Holes in Bayesian statistics (my talk tomorrow at the Bayesian conference, based on work with Yuling)
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Interactive and Automated Data Analysis: thoughts from Di Cook, Hadley Wickham, Jessica Hullman, and others
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The state of statistics in 1990
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Toward a Shnerbian theory that establishes connections between the complexity (nonlinearity, chaotic dynamics, number of components) of a system and the capacity to infer causality from datasets
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It’s lumbar time: Wrong inference because of conditioning on a reasonable, but in this case false, assumption.
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Marquand.
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Last week’s summer school on probabilistic AI
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Some solid criticisms of Ariely and Nudge—from 2012!
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Edward Kennedy on the Facebook/Instagram 2020 election experiments
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Forking paths in LLMs for data analysis
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StanCon 2024: scholarships, sponsors, and other news
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Forking paths and workflow in statistical practice and communication
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Some fun basketball graphs
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Implicit assumptions in the Tversky/Kahneman example of the blue and green taxicabs
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Pervasive randomization problems, here with headline experiments
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More on the disconnect between who voters support and what they support
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What to do with age? (including a regression predictor linearly and also in discrete steps)
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In Stan, “~” should be called a “distribution statement,” not a “sampling statement.”
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New online Stan course: 80 videos + hosted live coding environment
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Comedy and child abuse in literature
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Subscribe to this free newsletter and get a heads-up on our scheduled posts a week early!
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This well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me. Can you help me out?
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“Beyond the black box: Toward a new paradigm of statistics in science” (talks this Thursday in London by Jessica Hullman, Hadley Wickham, and me)
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Myths of American history from the left, right, and center; also a discussion of the Why everything you thought you knew was wrong” genre of book.
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One way you can understand people is to look at where they prefer to see complexity.
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Loving, hating, and sometimes misinterpreting conformal prediction for medical decisions
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Statistics Blunder at the Supreme Court
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Faculty and postdoc jobs in computational stats at Newcastle University (UK)
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Arnold Foundation and Vera Institute argue about a study of the effectiveness of college education programs in prison.
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How would the election turn out if Biden or Trump were replaced by a different candidate?
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1. Why so many non-econ papers by economists? 2. What’s on the math GRE and what does this have to do with stat Ph.D. programs? 3. How does modern research on combinatorics relate to statistics?
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Questions and Answers for Applied Statistics and Multilevel Modeling
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“‘Pure Craft’ Is a Lie” and other essays by Matthew Salesses
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He has some questions about a career in sports analytics.
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I strongly doubt that any human has ever typed the phrase, “torment executioners,” on any keyboard—except, of course, in discussions such as this.
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Report of average change from an Alzheimer’s drug: I don’t get the criticism here.
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Who is the Stephen Vincent Benet of today?
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To what extent is psychology different from other fields regarding fraud and replication problems?
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More on the oldest famous person ever (just considering those who lived to at least 104)
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Again on the role of elite media in spreading UFOs-as-space-aliens and other bad ideas
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Selection bias leads to confusion about the relative stability of deterministic and stochastic algorithms
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“Nonreplicable” publications are cited more than “replicable” ones?
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Update on “the hat”: It’s “the spectre,” a single shape that can tile the plane aperiodically but not periodically, and doesn’t require flipping
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When the story becomes the story
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Whassup with those economists who predicted a recession that then didn’t happen?
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