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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Friday, February 24, 2012

Odd Criterion

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Via Diane Ravitch : But one sentence in the agreement shows what matters most: “Teachers rated ineffective on student performance based on ...

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Test Scores

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Diane Ravitch has some comments on the evidence that there may have been some alterations of D.C. test score results: What will this revela...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

While 'real' news shows were covering Charlie Sheen...

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Strange Bedfellows

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(where your intrepid blogger sides with Robert Samuelson, gives Ray Fisman a break and wonders what in the hell happened to Jonathan Chait...

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

"We could call them 'universities'"

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This bit from the from Kevin Carey's entry into the New Republic Debate caught my eye: In the end, [Diane Ravitch's] Death and Lif...

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Some context on schools and the magic of the markets

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One reason emotions run so hot in the current debate is that the always heated controversies of education have somehow become intertwined wi...

Monday, March 15, 2010

TNR on the education debate

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The New Republic is starting a series on education reform. Given the extraordinary quality of commentary we've been seeing from TNR, th...

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