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- My SciML Webinar next week (28 Sep): Multiscale generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with delayed rejection (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Millennials Have Lost Their Grip on Fashion (www.theatlantic.com)
- In which we answer some questions about regression discontinuity designs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A message to Parkinson’s Disease researchers: Design a study to distinguish between these two competing explanations of the fact that the incidence of Parkinson’s is lower among smokers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How to quit smoking, and a challenge to currently-standard individualistic theories in social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Freaky Friday that never happened (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Creating Community in a Data Science Classroom” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Are there clear examples of the opposite idea, where four visually similar visualizations can have vastly different numerical stats?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Harvard law prof sez: “I believe that if [universities] are going to accept blood money . . . the should only ever accept that money anonymously.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses (www.microbe.tv)
- “Evidence-based medicine”: does it lead to people turning off their brains? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Omid Malekan on why crypto is not a scam (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How big problem it is that cross-validation is biased? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Evaluating Visualizations for Inference and Decision-Making (Jessica Hullman’s talk in the Columbia statistics seminar next Monday) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Better Than Difference in Differences (my talk for the Online Causal Inference Seminar Tues 19 Sept) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Only Productivity Hack That Works on Me (www.theatlantic.com)
- The One Thing Everyone Should Know About Fall COVID Vaccines (www.theatlantic.com)
- Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years? (www.theatlantic.com)
- Crypto scam social science thoughts: The role of the elite news media and academia (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Analyst positions available at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Using forecasts to estimate individual variances (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What’s the difference between Derek Jeter and preregistration? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Never Acquire Clothes the Same Way Again (www.theatlantic.com)
- The authors of research papers have no obligation to share their data and code, and I have no obligation to believe anything they write. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Where End-of-Life Care Falls Short (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1043: Marion Koopmans on COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1, polio and One Health (www.microbe.tv)
- Improving Survey Inference in Two-phase Designs Using Bayesian Machine Learning (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1042: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Immune 71: Can parasitic worms prevent pandemics? (www.microbe.tv)
- When I said, “judge this post on its merits, not based on my qualifications,” was this anti-Bayesian? Also a story about lost urine. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- We Have No Drugs to Treat the Deadliest Eating Disorder (www.theatlantic.com)
- This is what “power = .06” looks like (visualized by Art Owen). (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This Fall (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Taint of Nuclear Disaster Doesn’t Wash Away (www.theatlantic.com)
- Forking paths in medical research! A study with 9 research teams: (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A rational agent framework for improving visualization experiments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- PhD student, PostDoc, and Research software engineering positions (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What happened with HMOs? An update and an empirical research question. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A client tried to stiff me for $5000. I got my money, but should I do something? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Sources of bias in observational studies of covid-19 vaccine effectiveness” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- ‘Is It the Time of the Month When the Truth Comes Out?’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- How many Americans drink alcohol? And who are they? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1041: Novel oral polio vaccine? with Raul Andino and Kostya Chumakov (www.microbe.tv)
- “Latest observational study shows moderate drinking associated with a very slightly lower mortality rate” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1040: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Advice on writing a discussion of a published paper (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The variation-ignoring junk science that’s promoted by the Association for Psychological Science and related academic celebrities. It’s like a poker player thinking: “okay, if push all in from the button I’ll win 3.6 big blinds each and every time.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- ChatGPT (4) can do 3-digit multiplication (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard (www.theatlantic.com)
- My two courses this fall: “Applied Regression and Causal Inference” and “Communicating Data and Statistics” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Chris Chambers’s radical plan for Psychological Science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get? (www.theatlantic.com)
- Some Open Questions in Statistics (my talk this Fri, 1 Sep 2023, at the University of Michigan) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Should We All Be Eating Like The Rock? (www.theatlantic.com)
- There are no underpowered datasets; there are only underpowered analyses. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Differences between boy and girl dinosaurs: Going beyond p-values and dichotomous thinking (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1039: Landmines for phages, a mouthful of redondoviruses (www.microbe.tv)
- Update on Retrodesign: R package for Type M and Type S errors (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Blast from the past (hot hand edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Genetic Snapshot Could Predict Preterm Birth (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1038: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Is Salsa Gazpacho? (www.theatlantic.com)
- U.S. congressmember makes the fallacy of the one-sided bet. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Cureus, its reviewing, and its “Scholarly Impact Quotient” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How well do engineers understand probability? (question from an aeronautical engineer) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Zero Lead Is an Impossible Ask for American Parents (www.theatlantic.com)
- Why does education research have all these problems? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Editorial processes and ethics approval — Case study of 248 studies with the same ethics approval number (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- thefacebook and mental health trends: Harvard and Suffolk County Community College (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The backpack fallacy rears its ugly head once again (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Hi Andrew, there’s a new Effective Altruist billionaire giving away their money . . .” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Report on the large language model meeting at Berkeley (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Bob Carpenter thinks GPT-4 is awesome. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1037: Antibodies, the good (CoV), the bad (Ad), the beautiful (www.microbe.tv)
- The fundamental role of data partitioning in predictive model validation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Simple Marketing Technique Could Make America Healthier (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1036: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Drinking Water Is Easy (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1035: Poxvirus wars, warp speed COVID-19 vaccine rollout (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1034: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV Special: Toppling the anti-vaxxer pyramid with "flu-shot cheerleader" Desiree Townsend (www.microbe.tv)
- An Adorable Way to Study How Kids Get Each Other Sick (www.theatlantic.com)
- We Must Learn to Love Our Sweat (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1033: Freediving with nanobodies and interferon (www.microbe.tv)
- Model life tables (freerangestats.info)
- TWiV 1032: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- The Problem With ‘Why Do People Live in Phoenix?’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- You’re Probably Drinking Enough Water (www.theatlantic.com)
- Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating Eczema (www.theatlantic.com)
- What Does It Mean to Die of Heat? (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1031: Death on the West Nile (www.microbe.tv)
- Log transforms, geometric means and estimating population totals (freerangestats.info)
- TWiV 1030: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1029: David Tuller on Long COVID and ME/CFS (www.microbe.tv)
- Immune 70: Immunology of picky eating (www.microbe.tv)