This paper discusses some statistical aspects of the U.K. Covid-19 pandemic response, focussing particularly on cases where we believe that a statistically questionable approach or presentation...

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I developed the lecture notes based on my ``Causal Inference'' course at the University of California Berkeley over the past seven years. Since half of the students were undergraduates, my lecture...

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Statistical regression models are used for predicting outcomes based on the values of some predictor variables or for describing the association of an outcome with predictors. With a data set at hand,...

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I was strolling around Cork hand-in-hand with Cara on a bright, Irish summer evening. It was the finest place on earth. I was in a suit and tie - untucked, unbuttoned and loose, except for my dress sh...

3 hour workshop for 2021 Leipzig Spring School in Methods for the Study of Culture and the Mind. Outline, slides, and code at https://github.com/rmcelreath/c...

NEW YORK—Calling out the unsustainable pace at which historic events seemed to be occurring, local man Brad Gifford told reporters Monday that important news stories were now happening faster than he could generate uninformed opinions about them. “Look, I’m trying my hardest to scrape together

Reading and understanding econometrics papers can be hard work. Most published articles, even review articles, are written by specialists for specialists. Unless you’re already familiar with the liter...

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Beginning with his groundbreaking 1982 book “Chimpanzee Politics,” Frans de Waal pioneered studies of primate cognition and shattered long-held ideas about what it means to be an animal — and a human.

In Gaza, deforestation is a sign of Palestinian civilians’ desperation and Israeli soldiers’ destructive tactics

New policy requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials The case for sharing data from clinical research is strong.12 Clinical study data include all informatio...

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Estimands can be used in studies of healthcare interventions to clarify the interpretation of treatment effects. The addendum to the ICH E9 harmonised guideline on statistical principles for clinical ...

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