West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

I think we also need to page Mark Palko

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Today's new patent is from Apple, US patent #8,082,523. It is best described as: In other words, anything you’d recognize as a smart...

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Randomized Social Experiments

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In a really fascinating post , Alex Tabarrok discusses controversy about a random clinical trial set within a housing program. It's a v...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Education Reform

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I want to very quickly return to first principles. When Mark and I began discussing tenure reform , it was in the context of a "crisis...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Alex Tabarrok's literary leverage

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There's a very good discussion about superstars and the winner-take-all economy over at Economist's View. Alex Tabarrok argues that...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games

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You've probably heard about the Harlem Children's Zone, an impressive, even inspiring initiative to improve the lives of poor inner-...

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