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.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Location continued

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Dean Dad points us to something I wish I had seen before writing the other location, location, location posts . But with the shift in pro...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

This is not the mind behind ‘Dilbert’; this is the mind behind the 'Dilberito.'

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If you are thinking about going into the corporate world, you will need to be prepared to sit through endless bullshit seminars. You will be...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Location, Location, Location continued -- more outliers

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Over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Frances Woolley has an interesting post on transportation views then and now. This picture alone ma...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Lessons in reading a business story -- location, location, location

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There is a lot of interesting stuff in this article by Chelsea Hawkins on who uses Uber and Lyft and what it costs, but for now there's...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Brooks on Trump -- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance

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I know I said I was out for the weekend and I realize that the Kübler-Ross bit is overdone, but after repeated (if not perhaps sequential) d...

Getting an early start to the weekend

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Lots of serious stuff in the queue for next week. Until then, let's kick back and watch some videos I miss James Garner. This is...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Quotas

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One of the underlying issues of the no-excuses charter school thread is the way badly designed, badly maintained metric-based systems can go...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The Wages of Strauss* -- Part II (Josh edition)

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[*Joseph (who knows more than a normal person should on these matters) took mild exception to the previous post in this thread, specifically...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Revisiting "The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio"

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[from the teaching blog ] When following the education reform movement, it is enormously useful to step back from time to time and look a...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Musical Accompaniment

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I was reading these posts by  Greg Sargent and Charles Pierce on the turmoil in the GOP over the upcoming convention and I realized that a...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Suspensions and Race

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There's a new report on which groups are the most likely to get suspended. For kids who are African-American or who are disabled, the nu...

Budget spirals

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I've recently gotten mildly addicted to the Trailers from Hell, not because any of them have been tell-all-your-friends great -- so far ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

The Missing White House Tapes -- you can find everything on Youtube

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A friend I grew up with was a big fan of comedy albums. One of his favorites was National Lampoon's Missing White House Tapes . The M...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Policy tangle

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This is Joseph One thing that I always find challenging is how to interpret different participation rates in education.  For example, this...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

When did following up become the exception instead of the rule?

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From Jim Avery writing for Cracked.com : In recent years, the national minimum wage has become a hot topic, with people debating about the...
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