Coming up this week on the blog:
Mon 17 Jun 2024: This well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me. Can you help me out?
Tues 18 Jun: Comedy and child abuse in literature
Wed 19 Jun: What to do with age? (including a regression predictor linearly and also in discrete steps)
Thus 20 Jun: More on the disconnect between who voters support and what they support
Fri 21 Jun: This is not an argument against self-citations. It’s an argument about how they should be counted. Also, a fun formula that expresses the estimated linear regression coefficient as a weighted average of local slopes.
Sat 22 Jun: Implicit assumptions in the Tversky/Kahneman example of the blue and green taxicabs
Sun 23 Jun: Some fun basketball graphs
And this past week:
Sat 15 Jun: One way you can understand people is to look at where they prefer to see complexity.
Fri 14 Jun: Loving, hating, and sometimes misinterpreting conformal prediction for medical decisions
Fri 14 Jun: Statistics Blunder at the Supreme Court
Thurs 13 Jun: Faculty and postdoc jobs in computational stats at Newcastle University (UK)
Thurs 13 Jun: Arnold Foundation and Vera Institute argue about a study of the effectiveness of college education programs in prison.
Wed 12 Jun: How would the election turn out if Biden or Trump were replaced by a different candidate?
Tues 11 Jun: Questions and Answers for Applied Statistics and Multilevel Modeling
Mon 10 Jun: “‘Pure Craft’ Is a Lie” and other essays by Matthew Salesses
Lots of comments on Thursday’s causal inference post.
Not so much reaction to the Supreme Court post. I guess that, at this point, people of all political views have enoug distrust of the court that it’s hardly a shocker to hear that they’re making statistics blunders.
I recommend you read the 11 Jun post: these questions and answers could be useful to many of you.
I also recommend Salesses’s writings for all of you who are teachers. I have a couple more posts on his stuff coming in the next few months.
Finally, my post on alternatives to Biden and Trump referred to earlier posts by bloggers Paul Campos and Nate Silver. I alerted both of them to my post, and Campos replied with followup post. I’ve not heard yet from Silver, so I still don’t know exactly what he was thinking with his statements about inflation and votes. I’m guessing he was using poetic license and exaggerating the number, kind of like when I write that something has happened a zillion times even though the number of events is actually much less than a zillion. Quants are allowed poetic license too!