Active statistics, mindless interpretation, and piranhas
It’s all about the wedding, never about the marriage.
Here’s what’s coming this week on the blog:
Mon 4 Mar 2024: Our new book, Active Statistics, is now available!
Tues 5 Mar: How large is that treatment effect, really? (My talk at the NYU economics seminar, Thurs 7 Mar)
Wed 6 Mar: Mindlessness in the interpretation of a study on mindlessness
Thurs 7 Mar: With journals, it’s all about the wedding, never about the marriage.
Fri 8 Mar: Statistical practice as scientific exploration (my talk for the Philosophy of Computation and Data Workshop)
Sat 9 Mar: A new piranha paper
Sun 10 Mar: Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications: Can a new search engine be built that will fix this problem?
And here were last week’s posts:
3 Mar: Hey! Here’s some R code to make colored maps using circle sizes proportional to county population.
2 Mar: How to code and impute income in studies of opinion polls?
1 Mar: The four principles of Barnard College: Respect, empathy, kindness . . . and censorship?
29 Feb: ISBA 2024 Satellite Meeting: Lugano, 25–28 June
29 Feb: Leap Day Special!
28 Feb: “Exclusive: Embattled dean accused of plagiarism in NSF report” (yup, it’s the torment executioners)
28 Feb: Varying slopes and intercepts in Stan: still painful in 2024
28 Feb: A suggestion on how to improve the broader impacts statement requirement for AI/ML papers
28 Feb: Blog is adapted to laptops or desktops, not to smartphones or pads.
27 Feb: Tutorial on varying-intercept, varying-slope multilevel models in Stan, from Will Hipson