General-purpose LLMs are mediocre at chess (roughly beginner to intermediate club level at best) and very weak at Go. They cannot beat professional human players or top specialized AIs like Stockfish,...

Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance productivity by automating code generation for statistical reports. Using Gemini and Stata, users can input analysis code, which Gemini converts to Stata co…

At the start of the pandemic two professors, Martin Landray and Peter Horby, did something that should have been banal but was also rare: they tested drugs

Excel is widely used and one of the most familiar professional software among students regardless of their background. Excel can help students, in particular those without statistics background, to…

I recently came across some interesting tutorials on TMLE. This reminds me of my previous post on comparing different estimators of treatment effects (see here). The default setting in the tmle R p…

There is a recent article on identifying potential students in Royal Statistical Society’s magazine Significance ( which I found very interesting. A response letter ( is also worth reading. T…