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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Saturday, October 16, 2010

"No, I said 'self-select for attitude.'"

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One of the many weird aspects of the charter school debate has been the non-exchanges over selection effects . Critics suggest that students...

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Brief quote from EPI

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I have a feeling I'm going to be referring to this a lot: For a variety of reasons, analyses of VAM [Value Added Modeling] results have...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

More on the SRI KIPP report

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This is a fairly small case of researchers being (deliberately?) obtuse, but it's representative enough to merit a brief post. First loo...

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...

Saturday, September 4, 2010

EPI Briefing Paper -- Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers

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In terms of education reform, this is probably the biggest story to come over the wires in a long time: While there are good reasons for con...

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