'statistics' Tag

  • May
    17
    2011

    David Brooks

    … was on the Today programme this morning, repeating the discredited claim that people named Dennis are more likely to be dentists. Brooks played up the suggestive power of names and occupation/hobbies.
    The only person who emerged with credit was Damon Hill, who appeared on the next segment, asking: “What does that say about people who [...]

  • Jan
    18
    2010

    Two things I don’t get

    Why are Italian politicians bending over backwards to say nice things about Craxi when he was, after all, a fugitive from justice?
    If your one-dimensional model works fine, but your two-dimensional item response model doesn’t converge after a long long run even with informative priors on items over both dimensions, can you do a Gertrude [...]

 
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