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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

NEW: The Trump administration is banning one of the Census Bureau's main ways of protecting the confidentiality of people's responses to the #2030Census and other surveys — added statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results www.commerce.gov/opog/disclos...

.02 The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis shall adhere to the following order of priority when considering and applying Disclosure Avoidance:

a. Coarsening shall be the preferred category of Disclosure Avoidance methods for all statistical products.

b. Suppression shall be permitted as a last resort, only to be used when coarsening is prohibited by law or would substantially defeat the accuracy or usability of a statistical product.

c. Noise infusion shall not be used for any statistical product.

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A+++ (especially the ending line -- too accurate)

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

And also magically deciding on tighter bounds instead of trying to use actual auxiliary data to inform such bounds seems… exactly like “making shit up”!

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Finally read the paper and 100% agree to all of this. It’s Manksi suggesting pollsters use the Manski bounds (shocking) which are useless in the polling context!

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Could you impute the missing/might be 0 vector from fully observed cases who have similar pattern of yes responses for the observed time points?

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Great resource, thanks for sharing! Was looking for something to share with students who need a solid, hands-on intro, and this is perfect.

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Seeing this on the same day I heard Jump on the radio for the first time in… a long time… has made my day. Laughed out loud. Thank you!

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Zoom option also benefits students who can’t physically attend a class for other reasons thus increasing accessibility. It’ll be my forever option too! (And when I did it in Autumn I still had excellent in class attendance which I know is a concern for some instructors.)

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Also this, I want to shout this from the rooftops, perfectly said: “Experience says that [the sample size you can afford] is almost always less than the sample size we'd want to fully meet our scientific goals. And that's ok, but let's not fool ourselves about the reality of the situation.”

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Ohhh this is a great resource, thanks for sharing! Redesigning a regression course with colleagues and meeting some resistance to change….

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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology @jssam.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Journal of Survey #Statistics and Methodology is now on Bluesky! JSSAM publishes cutting-edge scholarly articles on statistical & methodological issues for sample surveys, censuses, admin record systems, & other related data, and is cosponsored by #AAPOR & the American Statistical Association.

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

PS should have lead with, CONGRATS!

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Rebecca Andridge @randridge.bsky.social · 25/10/2023