Universal Pre-K has huge income benefits for parents, despite limited academic effects for kids. "Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families, almost entirely from parents' earnings gains." www.nber.org/papers/w3303...
Heard that this was a frustrating interview to do, because Good wouldn't answer any of the "interesting questions" about Bletchley park, now of course much more has come out ...
A member of my probabilistic modeling Discord server found this awesome interview between I.J. Good and (a young) Persi Diaconis that I highly recommend, www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQnr....
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The latest `brms` CRAN release added support for `priorsense` for easy prior and likelihood sensitivity analysis doi.org/10.1007/s112...#Bayesian#rstats
Faculty positions at the University of Oregon’s new Data Science department statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/30/f...
"This is not the first time in recent history an HIV prevention wonder drug has been tested in young African women but remains unavailable for most of them." www.statnews.com/2024/09/18/l...
The process for translating clinical trial results into action for young women in Africa has been left to our imaginations, write Mark Siedner and Rochelle Walensky.
Just saw a post describing a thing as "easy to do but impossible to do casually" and as soon as I read it I realized I was going to be using that in teaching forever.
Here is a blog post on using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) for meta-analysis or, more specifically, meta-regression in {brms}: matthewbjane.com/blog-posts/b...
A GAM is a linear or generalized linear model that allows you to model non-linear relationships using splines, smooth functions that allows to model the “wiggiliness” in the data. To my knowledge ther...
Canonical correlation or the RV coefficient if the variables are in groups or the FOCI method by Azadkia and Chaterjee . That paper (arxiv.org/abs/1910.12327) also references many such coefficients...
We propose a coefficient of conditional dependence between two random variables $Y$ and $Z$ given a set of other variables $X_1,\ldots,X_p$, based on an i.i.d. sample. The coefficient has a long...