statistics you can probably trust

ALDA stands for the book, Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis, by Singer and Willett. I’ve had this lying around for a… Read more

I’ve been reading Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them) by Phillip Good and James Hardin. It’s a… Read more

Someone I work with asked about how to easily update lots of variable names in a R data frame after… Read more

Working through Gelman and Hill’s book can be maddening. The exposition is wonderful but recreating their examples leads to new… Read more

In an earlier post I described how I went about scraping football data off the Virginia Tech athletics web site…. Read more

I was playing with R Markdown in R Studio and thought I’d share my results. I can’t believe how easy… Read more

I recently read The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande and was fascinated by how relatively simple checklists can improve performance… Read more

Someone on Reddit posted Chapter 1 of Howard Wainer’s book, Picturing the Uncertain World. The name of the chapter is… Read more

I’ve been working through Gelman and Hill’s book, Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. I originally wanted to read… Read more

I gave a presentation on Buffon’s Needle Problem in a job interview once. Here’s the presentation I gave in PDF… Read more