Two kings, a royal, a knight, and three princesses walk into a bar . . .
Also spies, beatles, and basketball shooters
This week on the blog:
Mon 29 Apr 2024: Boris and Natasha in America: How often is the wife taller than the husband?
Tues 30 Apr: Disparities in Mortality by Sexual Orientation in a Large, Prospective JAMA Paper
Wed 1 May: Who wrote the music for In My Life? Three Bayesian analyses
Thurs 2 May: Two kings, a royal, a knight, and three princesses walk into a bar . . . (Dude from Saudi Arabia accuses the lords of AI of not giving him enough credit.)
Fri 3 May: Combining multiply-imputed datasets, never easy
Sat 4 May: “You want to gather data to determine which of two students is a better basketball shooter. You plan to have each student take N shots and then compare their shooting percentages. Roughly how large does N have to be for you to have a good chance of distinguishing a 30% shooter from a 40% shooter?”
Sun 5 May: On lying politicians and bullshitting scientists
And this past week:
27 Apr: Evaluating MCMC samplers
25 Apr: Population forecasting for small areas: an example of learning through a social network
24 Apr: GIST: Gibbs self-tuning for HMC
23 Apr: 6 ways to follow this blog
23 Apr: What is your superpower?
22 Apr: Decorative statistics and historical records
Enjoy.