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1. TWiV 1310: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
2. I love the library–you never know what you’re gonna find there. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Is your model converging? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. Shameless plug alert: Win prizes by forecasting real healthcare data to help UK’s health service save lives (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. Hey! Here’s a great money making opportunity using the lottery. And it’s endorsed by Google, Apple, Yahoo, Morningstar, and Microsoft! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending (www.theatlantic.com)
7. Survey Statistics: design-based cross validation (dCV) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. Black and white, gray and in between: What color is the media? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed (www.theatlantic.com)
10. The point of yesterday’s post on the three ways of attacking a statistical problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. The Making of a Diagnostic Mind (www.theatlantic.com)
12. Looking for a postdoc to teach and develop Bayesian methods (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
13. Immune102: Living longer without B cells (www.microbe.tv)
14. MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task (www.theatlantic.com)
15. These are the three ways of attacking a statistical problem (illustrated with the NFL example) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Don’t Get Sucked Into the War on Lice (www.theatlantic.com)
17. “12-dimensional chess” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. Pacific island energy supply (freerangestats.info)
19. TWiV 1309: Maybe they're all cancer vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
20. 2026 American Causal Inference Conference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Should you include a list of retractions, corrections, and errors, along with a list of publications, on your CV? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. America’s Raw-Cheddar Chaos (www.theatlantic.com)
23. TWiV 1308: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
24. Maybe one of the remaining ’72 Dolphins will read this one. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. Frank Harrell on why and how to do Bayes for clinical trials and the recent FDA draft guidelines (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. Why and how to do Bayes for clinical trials: Our comments on the recent FDA draft guidance, and reactions to two comments by others (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. RFK Jr. Is Losing His Grip on the CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
29. Notation corner: When you have several different expressions that are mathematically equivalent, you don’t have to choose just one! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Survey Statistics: Individualism and the CV Noise Problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. The Meme-Washing of RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
33. How earthquake safe are Vancouver condos? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Space mirrors: Awesome solution to our energy problems, or ridiculous public relations stunt? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. TWiV 1307: My heart breaks for flu (www.microbe.tv)
36. Claimed “100% sensitivity and specificity in differentiating autistic individuals from typically developing controls using retinal photographs” . . . yeah, right. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. Pacific island demograpy, the narrative (freerangestats.info)
38. TWiV 1306: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
39. Nutpie: state-of-the-art mass matrix adaptation for HMC (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. A data model is not just a “likelihood” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. There’s Only One Reason to Cold Plunge (www.theatlantic.com)
42. I don’t like the Wikipedia definition of Bayesian statistics. The Merriam-Webster definition is much better! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory (www.theatlantic.com)
44. New features in Stan Playground! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. Survey Statistics: individualism doesn’t work (even when weighted) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. Girls’ Sports Are Getting More Physical (www.theatlantic.com)
47. Fascist academics today and communist academics in the 1930s-1950s (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Immune Booster 25: Out of the anti-vax woods with Ellen Woods (www.microbe.tv)
49. Another reason to hate on prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. “Which means that I’m qualified to write books on the topic and go on NPR regularly and give Ted talks and advise the government, but that’s about it.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. The Peptide Boom Is Getting Out of Hand (www.theatlantic.com)
52. What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind (www.theatlantic.com)
53. It’s . . . speciation time! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. TWiV 1305: Lab leak idea called on the carpet (www.microbe.tv)
55. The paradox of derivatives and integrals (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. TWiV 1304: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
57. The Effect of High-Tech Statistical Analysis on the P-values of Top Researchers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. The Dieting Myth That Just Won’t Die (www.theatlantic.com)
59. Being picky and careful pays off! (Utah redistricting story) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t (www.theatlantic.com)
61. SparseNUTS: Preconditioning hierarchical models in HMC with a sparse “Laplace approximation” at the marginal mode (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Ted Williams and Me (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. One Food All Americans Can Agree On (www.theatlantic.com)
64. CMU finally shows up in Epstein files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. Postdoctoral research position at Princeton on psychological processes related to time (such as impatience and present bias) and their causes and political consequences. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. More UFO bullshit in our science-media-industrial complex. (Yeah, there’s a reason this blog has a Zombies category.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring again ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. New course on generative AI for behavioral science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. Salinger. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. The Fight Over Tylenol and Autism Just Got Messier (www.theatlantic.com)
71. “The idea of Israel” . . . more generally, The idea of X, for different values of X (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. Authors of the class “Lorrie Moore” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. TWiV 1303: Overachieving vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
74. Bayesian inferences and frequentist evaluations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. Pacific island remittances (freerangestats.info)
76. TWiV 1302: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
77. More on making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Jay Bhattacharya Might Get His COVID Capstone (www.theatlantic.com)
79. The Trump Administration Is Trying to Have Its Vaccine Policy Both Ways (www.theatlantic.com)
80. Making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
81. Missing forecasts (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. Ethics corner: “As a statistical consultant, if you’re a co-author on a substantive paper, is it your duty to ensure that all the possible statistical concerns you could imagine are addressed?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
83. Survey Statistics: sampling-weighted loss (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. American Snacking Habits Are Transforming the Restaurant Industry (www.theatlantic.com)
85. Immune Booster 24: Tolerating pregnancy with Gabrielle Rizzuto (www.microbe.tv)
86. The Impossible Predicament of the Uninsured (www.theatlantic.com)
87. TWiV 1301: Lost in giant virus translation (www.microbe.tv)
88. Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives (www.theatlantic.com)
89. Pacific island population pyramids (again) (freerangestats.info)
90. TWiV 1300: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
91. Well, That Didn’t Sound Like Casey Means (www.theatlantic.com)
92. Is It Aging, or Is It ADHD? (www.theatlantic.com)
93. The Skin-Care Industry Is Coming for Toddlers (www.theatlantic.com)
94. Immune 101: Ink and immunity (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 1299: Moth balls and blood clots (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1298: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. Pacific diaspora (freerangestats.info)
98. Immune Booster 23: Critical windows during immune system development with Anna Beaudin (www.microbe.tv)
99. The world's biggest 'Pacific' cities (freerangestats.info)
100. TWiV 1297: Spillover squirrel (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1296: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
102. Immune Booster #22 T cell signaling and selection with Leslie Berg (www.microbe.tv)
103. TWiV 1295: Are YOU willing to take one for the team? (www.microbe.tv)
104. TWiV 1294: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)