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Progress on making my blog boring vanilla html. If you've not read any of this, I suggest the Regression Fire and Dangerous Things three-part series. It's like a super-condensed version of my book/course, a neutron star of Bayesian causal inference. elevanth.org

Have you worked through Richard McElreath 🦔’s ‘Statistical Rethinking’ as a reading group? I’d love to hear any ideas and experiences how best to do a recurring meeting based on the book. Do you read chapters together? Do you read before and then try some questions together? #statistics

The word QUENCH is the causative form of a now-dead English verb QUINK, which meant to extinguish/vanish. Best known living pair of this type maybe DRINK/DRENCH.

Just a random language fact to THENCH you

Happy #Caturday

This 'Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking' is fascinating (authors Kevin Hong Edward Slingerland Joe Henrich ). Also many places where we might replace 'rainmaking' with 'statistics' and sense remains similar. Article: doi.org/10.1086/729118

This is Rick Rubin, midwife of the Beastie Boys, being based

There was quite the scrum between two Tufted Titmice, which looked to be caused by a peanut! They were fighting each other in the air Dragonball Z style, battled on the ground for a bit, and then went back to the air. The one Tuftie never gave up the peanut.

Mischka had tuna, radiates satisfaction while I cook some risotto

charlesfrye.github.io/stats/2017/11/…

I've greatly expanded my chapter on Bayesian clinical trial design with examples of Bayesian power and sample size simulations for time-to-event and ordinal outcomes, incorporating uncertainty in effect size to detect ... hbiostat.org/bayes/bet/desi… Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics

'Why would I share my research data? They are MINE!' New post in #SORTEE 's #blog about #opendata scepticisms by ElinaTakola. With extra arguments on the benefits of data sharing and practical guidelines for beginners. #openscience #DataScience
tinyurl.com/yc4x82p2

Agree Richard McElreath 🦔 though instrumental variables was co-invented with his economist father youtube.com/watch?v=z0kI35… & though Sewall Wright developed path analysis & use of causal anchors, he never used genetic IVs. 25/4 at 4.30pm more on the crisis in MR forms.office.com/pages/response…

Would be useful at some point to compare how different disciplines have fallen in and out of love with instrumental variables. A method invented by a biologist, usually associated with economists, that deserves its own interdisciplinary cautionary literature at this point

I spoke about the origins and evolution of my book/course, open science and science reform, and once mentioned the phrase 'dungeon master'

We had an absolute blast having Richard McElreath 🦔 on the podcast talking about some vital topics. The phrase 'dungeon master' was used at one point - in what context? You'll have to listen to find out!