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.

Showing posts with label Freakonomics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freakonomics. Show all posts
Monday, August 20, 2012

Levitt and publishing bias in medical journals

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Via Andrew Gelman here is a quote from Steven Levitt When I told my father that I was sending my work saying car seats are not that effec...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Freakonomics

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Andrew Gelman's blog has a nice discussion of Freakonomics that is very topical given the discussion of Mike Daisy.  I think that he was...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Interesting Trading Idea

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The reformed broker has a great post on ten things not to do as an individual investor . Here is one that I think is worth keeping in mind ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Note to Gelman -- first fill its mouth with salt, then light candles, then decapitate

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Andrew Gelman is once again going after the voting-is-irrational zombie (disinterred this time by the Freakonomics team). Gelman shows, us...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

More questions about the statistics of Freakonomics

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Felix Salmon is on the case : There’s a nice empirical post-script to t he debate over the economic effects of classifying the Spotted Owl a...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Meta-Freakonomics

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Joseph recently wrote a post referring to this post by Andrew Gelman (which was based on a series of posts by Kaiser Fung which check the...
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