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He Did What?
Coming Soon! I've started a series called "What This-or-That Technique Really Is". First up is regression. It would have shown today, but---can you guess?---it isn't finished. I made the mistake…
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About That Lefties-Drink-More-Than-Conservatives Study
"Honey? Did you meet our new neighbors?" "Not yet. Why?" "I'm a little worried about them. They have an 'I heart NPR' sticker on their Prius." "Oh, God. Pass me…
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The Top Five Mistakes In Marketing Statistics
Forgive me the title, won't you? It is my own creation, I admit, but numbered promises are eminently clickable. Plus they are the norm in business writing. Anyway, the real…
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National Academy Of Sciences Mistakes Politics For Science. Again
Sometimes I want to write but only tears will come. I (a member of no party) quote from the opening of a recent "scientific" study published by that august organization,…
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Racism Eats Telomeres. An Exciting New Paper-Generating Research Area
A crack team of researchers led by David Chae has "discovered" that racism, the severest of all crimes, eats the telomeres of black men. Or maybe "eat" is the wrong…
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How To Properly Handle Proxy Time Series Reconstructions
This is all made up data, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings. Also, this is a sketch. Everything can't be done in 700 words. We are interested in the…
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Regression To The Mean (And Performance Curses) Simply Explained
I've just read about The Second Term Curse which supposedly besets (of course) second-term presidents. There is also the infamous Sports Illustrated Curse, which is said to befall athletes soon…
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Vitamin D And Cancer
This is our second big week focusing on colorectual cancer. Three weeks makes a streak. We'll see. Our paper is Mapping Vitamin D Deficiency, Breast Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer by…
