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Blog posts on statistics

2023

  • Selection bias and fixed effects (Jan 25)
  • Learning and persuasion (Jan 8)
  • Learning from opinions (Jan 6)

2022

  • Correlation and concatenation (Nov 17)
  • The friendship paradox (Nov 16)
  • Estimating treatment effects with OLS (Nov 12)
  • Paying for the truth (Sep 1)
  • Persuading with anecdotes (Mar 18)
  • Ideological bias and trust in information sources (Mar 9)
  • Pre-screening evidence (Mar 2)
  • Communicating science (Feb 23)
  • Hypothesis tests and Bayesian reasoning (Jan 6)

2021

  • Learning from noisy signals (Oct 23)
  • Snowball sampling bias in program evaluation (Sep 4)
  • Improving human predictions (Aug 17)
  • Coefficients of correlated regressors (Jul 7)
  • Dyadic dependence (Feb 10)
  • Ordinary and total least squares (Jan 11)

2020

  • Estimating sensitive parameters (Oct 21)
  • Lessons from Dave MarĂ© (Aug 16)
  • Understanding selection bias (Jul 3)
  • Degree-preserving randomisation (Feb 17)
  • Centrality rankings with noisy edge sets (Feb 14)

2019

  • Sampling the Motu coauthorship network (Jul 30)

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