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Nuance between philia and mania? •to like something means to find something agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory. •to have philia of something (eg. bibliophile) means to have friendly feeling toward something or have an abnormal

Btw. ell.stackexchange.com/questions/19...

I am confused. Your title mentions multinomial independent variables, and then you discuss "questions about different experiences in the healthcare system" (implying multiple questions), and then "this variable is dichotomized" sounds like a single variable, and nothing multinomial about that. Can you please explain just what your indepedent and dependent variables are? (Also, can you move away from dichotomania?) – Stephan Kolassa Commented2 hours ago @Stephan Kolassa The problem is misnamed. The problem is dichotophilia, an unreasonable affection for dichotomies. – Nick Cox Commented2 hours ago @NickCox: I have to respectfully disagree. Mania is characterized by "a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level", which quite evidently is involved when people apparently derive deep satisfaction from dichotomizing inherently numerical observations. – Stephan Kolassa Commented2 hours ago Why do we say necrophilia? (Actually I don't usually talk about it, but there you go.) – Nick Cox Commented1 hour ago https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/668701/what-is-the-right-way-to-handle-multinomial-independent-variables-in-logistic-re

One more reason to be on CV.

Learn Stan with brms, Part I | A. Solomon Kurz y ~ 1

New #rstats blog up!

solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07...

This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code.

Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.

v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

TBH, I don't think we are "few"

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Oh, no: www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/...

Every time I write "the literature is mixed" what I mean is "I don't want to talk about it"

I don't know, but my guess is this: successful theories in the life sciences (e.g., Darwinian evolution, learning theory, economics, Downs' 1957 theory of party competition) center on attempts by an actor to maximize some single something (gene survival, rewards, utility, votes). But groups, other than commodity traders and political parties, either maximize many things or just sit there and don't maximize anything. And if we downshift from groups to individuals, it is unlikely we can beat psychology or economics at the individual actor basic theory game.

This also reminds me of Davis' argument (I know you know):

If I let people around me to decide on this shared theory, I have to use terms like habitus, field, and capital culturel only. I understand the allure of something like utility model, but I don't think something similar would work for sociology, at least not now.

I agree with your main argument and critique of so-called heterodox people (e.g., procedural prescriptions, nothing of substance). I am not sure about “the boring reasons”, especially the first one.

Happy In Theory This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

New Substack post

It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work

As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending

thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

That tattoo will also capture my experience with the causal inference literature in general.

This is discouraging (in a good way). I guess things will get very complicated very quickly.

Screenshot of the top parts of pages 5 and 6 of 'Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition' at https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gsir-te/

The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package.

See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more.

#rstats

Not aging well (btw authors did not claim that).

I think this part is quite helpful if you want to figure out why you would like to use variables argument with avg_predictions: marginaleffects.com/chapters/com...

Hey I know this, it’s my life (minus decent career) but

Even faced with the same data, ecologists sometimes come to opposite conclusions Study highlights powerful role subjective choices can play in research, though some critics urge caution about applying findings too broadly

I spoke with @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for this story on the many analysts paper in ecology. To me the concerning thing is the interpretation, not the (expected) finding.

www.science.org/content/arti...

nautil.us/why-science-...

Philosophers - History of Philosophy - Summarized & Visualized An interactive summary of the history of philosophy showing the dis/agreement relationships between ideas

FRESH WORK
After 10 years of work on the sentence-based version of my History of Philosophy, I created an auxiliary interactive visualization, a force-directed graph with philosophers as nodes.

Link:
denizcemonduygu.com/philo/philos...

Detailed post:
www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/new-fo...

There are many difficulties in studying multicausal events, but the one that interests me is the problem that these causes operate on different time scales. Are there any good resources on this topic?

Older books (and their covers) have their own charm.

Theorem. If $n$ is an integer and $n^2$ is even, then $n$ is itself even. Proof. Contrapositives are for cowards, so assume $n$ is an integer and $n^2$ is even. Then $n^2=2k$ for some integer $k$, and thus $n^2-2k=0$. Behold: \[ n = n + (n^2-2k) = n(n+1)-2k. \] Both $n(n+1)$ and $2k$ are even, so $n$ is even. QED.

Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.

This sounds like the same error I blogged about a few years ago, the common error of trying to control for population (or body size or many etc) by dividing the outcome variable by it. Props to the authors for seeking review and taking the issue seriously. Role models for us all.

Taking Our Chances This one's for the academy, I guess

Sometimes you have to write “Truth and Probability” just because Margaret won’t fuck with you.

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Yes, thinking that it's from the 1880s makes it all the more impressive. Great slides btw. Made me read more about APC models.

That Perozzo figure

As expected, the APC talk for the sociologists was a lot of fun! In case you're curious, you can find the slides here: osf.io/mvqkx

YouTube video by THE TALK The Talk: Cher & David Lynch

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