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When does Bayes do the job? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; How Hamiltonian Monte Carlo works. The secret to making a successful conference presentation. When does Bayes do the job? On 6 August 2015, 9:57 am. I recall that you have also stressed this issue, and I’d like to acknowledge that. Do you have pointers to a few of your papers where you explicitly mention this? Ideally I would just take a quotation. Which I absolutely love. Then there’s this paper. Here’s a quote from that paper:. The next...
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My Company | Models Of Reality
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Engineering, Science, and Society. This blog represents my personal communications about science, engineering, social sciences, and how mathematical modeling fits into the picture. Professionally, I am now running a consulting company Lakeland Applied Sciences LLC. Where I put my mathematical modeling skills to work, in order to help people understand and develop new ideas into productive business opportunities. Get posts via RSS feed. Rdquo; May 4, 10:41. Ldquo; Very cool! Rdquo; May 4, 10:25. Ldquo; Sm...
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How to solve the Post Office’s problems? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Hipmunk FAIL: Graphics without content is not enough. The difference between significant and not significant…. How to solve the Post Office’s problems? On 8 September 2011, 9:30 am. Felix Salmon offers some suggestions. For some background, see this news article. By Steven Greenhouse.). September 8, 2011 at 10:13 am. Get into financial services? Banks don’t like competition, even for firms likely to start by serving customers they d...
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Born-open data - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Stan workshops at UCLA (6/23) and UCI (6/24). You can crush us, you can bruise us, yes, even shoot us, but oh—not a pie chart! On 17 June 2015, 11:36 am. And here’s the crux:. On the other hand, surprisingly, very few of our collective data are open! Say it again, brother:. What about current practice? Here’s one of my experiences with data-on-request:. I guess the Solomon-like compromise would’ve been to saw the dataset in half. On the s...
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Who am I? | Models Of Reality
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Engineering, Science, and Society. The short version is that I am a PhD student in Civil Engineering, studying mathematical methods for modeling materials and for analyzing risk. The long version may be more interesting:. Who now mainly works on hacking Lisp code. I spent several years in the early days of serious web application development ( 2001) trying to build a mouse genetics management database. I hated web development. My passion is for modeling. I then worked for Jax Kneppers Associates, a foren...
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A Bayesian model for an increasing function, in Stan! - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Hidden dangers of noninformative priors. Tables figures yet again. A Bayesian model for an increasing function, in Stan! On 22 November 2013, 9:42 am. Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s David Chudzicki’s story. With graphs and Stan/R code! Of how he fit a model for an increasing function (“isotonic regression”). Chudzicki writes:. One thing I like about this example is that it’s. Filed under Bayesian Statistics. Reply to this comment.
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Food Science | Models Of Reality
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Engineering, Science, and Society. Posts from the ‘Food Science’ Category. A Grapefruit A Day. brings the doctor to stay? Norovirus, and Bleach Dilution For Sanitization. Quick Comment on the 45 minute Turkey. Reducing Turkey Cooking Time. My 2010 Turkey data. Cooking Turkeys: I need MORE DATA! DHA and Fish Oil Use in Pregnancy. Babies, or Adults, Sunlight, and Vitamin D. Biological feedback and breast milk: an example of simple models being wrong. Laquo; Older Entries. Get posts via RSS feed. Ldquo; Smo...