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Erik Ringen

@err-ring.bsky.social

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Principal Data Scientist @ PyMC Labs PhD in Bio-Anth. Behavioral ecology, phylogenetics, statistics & causal inference. erikringen.github.io

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

life imitates art

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Whenever I teach the normal distribution I have students make a bivariate scatter plot of the draws from two independent std normals

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

my recommenders are bi-modal since becoming a parent

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

This primer on between/within effects (using Mundlak device) is the paper I pull-up more often than any other during stats consultations. Better approaches exist (latent mean centering) but the explanations and figures here are top notch. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Erik Ringen @err-ring.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Teaching statistics to grad students this semester. Reading Freedman's anti-regression piece "Statistical Models and Shoe Leather" (paper brought to my attention by @edhagen.net) next week to calibrate expectations. Tag urself on his ordinal scale of pessimism.

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