Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

In a distressing update to an already distressing story, James Smoliga writes:

Q-co...

This came in the mail:

My name is ** and I am a junior at ** High School. I am writing to you as a part of a summer assignment for my upcoming research class where I had to choose an expert in the math field to contact. I chose you considering your work and investment in the statistics field and how you have used statistics in the political landscape. I found it very i...

Mitzi Morris sends along the paper trail (I love archaic idioms) for her data spelunking in advance of her all-day introductory Stan tutorial next week at StanCon (we’ll see you in U...

The Q collar, I hope you don’t remember, is a neck accessory that is advertised as “proven” to protect athletes’ brains, but the studies purporting to offer this proof are suspect

OK, this one’s time constrained so I’ll post it right away, not on the usual lag.

Christian Robert points to this conference announcement:

We invite proposals for the BayesComp 2027 mirror event in ...