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Basu’s Bears (Fat Bear Week and survey calibration)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/04/basus-bears/

Published: October 4, 2024 16:04

It is my favorite holiday, Fat Bear Week: Fat Bear Week – an annual celebration of success. All bears are winners but only one true champion will emerge. Held over the course of seven days and concluding on the Fat … Continue reading →

Clybourne Park. And a Jamaican beef patty. (But no Gray Davis, no Grover Norquist, no rabbi.)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/03/clybourne-park/

Published: October 3, 2024 13:59

I was just at a pizza place on Clybourne Ave (Pequod’s; great crust but I prefer the sauce at Lou’s), and that reminded me that I’d never seen Clybourne Park, despite having gone many times to Steppenwolf (mostly positive experiences … Continue reading →

Evidence-based Medicine Eats Itself, and How to do Better (my talk at USC this Friday)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/02/evidence-based-medicine-eats-itself-and-how-to-do-better-my-talk-at-usc-this-friday/

Published: October 2, 2024 13:21

Fri 4 Oct 2024, noon at Hastings Auditorium (HMR 100), USC Health Sciences Campus: There are three commonly stated principles of evidence-based research: (1) reliance on statistically significant results from randomized trials, (2) balancing of costs,…

Wendy Brown: “Just as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry.”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/01/wb/

Published: October 1, 2024 13:52

William Davies quotes Wendy Brown: Just as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political…

Pete Rose

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/30/pete-rose/

Published: October 1, 2024 02:50

I have nothing new to say but wanted to point to two relevant posts: From Sep 2024: Pete Rose and gambling addiction From Jan 2012: Where are the larger-than-life athletes? I saw him play on TV but never in person, … Continue reading →

“A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/30/hudson/

Published: September 30, 2024 20:34

I just read this book by Debra Bruno. It was interesting, both the history and the story of how the author learned the story and talked with people about it. I don’t really have anything to say here; just wanted … Continue reading →

Faculty positions at the University of Oregon’s new Data Science department

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/30/faculty-positions-at-the-university-of-oregons-new-data-science-department/

Published: September 30, 2024 16:39

This is Jessica. Peter Ralph of University of Oregon writes: I’m writing because I’m helping start a Data Science department here. Briefly, here’s the postings: we’re looking for a department head:  https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27838 and two…

“Toward reproducible research: Some technical statistical challenges” and “The political content of unreplicable research” (my talks at Berkeley and Stanford this Wed and Thurs)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/30/toward-reproducible-research-some-technical-statistical-challenges-and-the-political-content-of-unreplicable-research-my-talks-at-berkeley-and-stanford-this-week/

Published: September 30, 2024 13:32

Wed 2 Oct 9:30am at Bin Yu’s research group, 1011 Evans Hall, University of California, Berkeley: Toward reproducible research: Some technical statistical challenges The replication crisis in social science is not just about statistics; it has also…

“Announcing the 2023 IPUMS Research Award Winners”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/29/announcing-the-2023-ipums-research-award-winners/

Published: September 29, 2024 13:32

PUMS stands for Public Use Microdata Sample—it’s a subset of the U.S. Census that contains individual-level data, I think it was 1% of the Census. I don’t know the full history, but here’s the current Census website with these data. … Continue reading →