Should you place more trust in scientists if they are “intellectually humble”?
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Should you place more trust in scientists if they are “intellectually humble”?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/04/s...
Uber could use your statistical analysis.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/03/5...
“You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.”
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Measurement error in the strike zone
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/02/m...
Controversy over different estimates of covid origins probabilities
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/01/d...
(1) Hierarchical models in genetics, (2) A Stan model with 400,000 latent parameters, (3) Super-scalable penalized maximum likelihood inference for biome problems, (4) “In the end, I basically gave up working on biology because of the politics.”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/31/b...
Resolving Simpson’s paradox using poststratification
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/31/r...
Using hierarchical modeling to get more stable rankings of gene expression
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/30/u...
Survey Statistics: adjusting for interest in politics
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/29/s...
Bordwell’s Perplexing Plots
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/29/b...
Israel/Palestine and political opinion-field inversion
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/28/i...
Trump and Epstein; Biden and Afghanistan; and the permission structure of public opinion
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/27/t...
What’s the purpose of a theorem? (Hint: It’s not what you think.)
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/26/w...
The two faces of academic social science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/t...
An evaluation scheme for sampling
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/24/a...
“Maybe They’re Born With It, or Maybe It’s Experience: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Learning Style Myth”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/24/m...
Validity and deduction in causal inference
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/23/v...
Survey Statistics: a new paradigm
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/22/s...
Stan for multimodal mixtures—from exponential CPS to linear DP
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/22/s...
Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/22/s...
What’s the range of uncertainty regarding the population of the Americas in 1492?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/21/w...
“A small group of mathematicians . . .”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/20/a...
Game theory as applied to the NYC mayoral election
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/19/g...
I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/i...
Problems with the conventions of journalism (everything has to be presented as new) and academic writing (everything has to be presented as important)
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/p...
“Flipping the Narrative in ‘Slouching Towards Utopia'”: Counter-narratives going beyond the default economics model of exponential growth
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/17/5...
“Song for Aki”: Prof reportedly clears a half million bucks by requiring online students to pay $89.99 each for his self-published course notes
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/17/s...
Survey Statistics: Longitudinal/panel data
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/15/s...
A bunch of readings and a new book on Bayesian meta-analysis
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/15/a...
Hey, Neurips and ICML. Time to do some scraping of your submissions to find the prevalence of LLM-reviewer instructions!
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