Posts Tagged ‘ Nate Silver ’

Sunday data/statistics link roundup 12/23/12

December 23, 2012
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A cool data visualization for blood glucose levels for diabetic individuals. This kind of interactive visualization can help people see where/when major health issues arise for chronic diseases. This was a class project by Jeff Heer’s Stanford CS448B students Ben Rudolph … Continue reading →

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Nate Silver is a Frequentist: Review of “the signal and the noise”

December 6, 2012
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Nate Silver is a Frequentist: Review of “the signal and the noise”

Reblogged from Normal Deviate: Nate Silver Is A Frequentist Review of ``the signal and the noise'' by Nate Silver There are not very many self-made statisticians, let alone self-made statisticians who become famous and get hired by the New York Times. Nate Silver is a fascinating person. And his book the signal and the noise, […]

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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

October 30, 2012
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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this column over at Politico got our attention (via Chris V. and others). The column is an attack on Nate Silver, who has a blog where he tries to predict the outc...

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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

October 30, 2012
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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this column over at Politico got our attention (via Chris V. and others). The column is an attack on Nate Silver, who has a blog where he tries to predict the outc...

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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

October 30, 2012
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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this column over at Politico got our attention (via Chris V. and others). The column is an attack on Nate Silver, who has a blog where he tries to predict the outc...

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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

October 30, 2012
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On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this column over at Politico got our attention (via Chris V. and others). The column is an attack on Nate Silver, who has a blog where he tries to predict the outc...

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Why You Shouldn’t Conclude "No Effect" from Statistically Insignificant Slopes

June 16, 2012
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It is quite common in political science for researchers to run statistical models, find that a coefficient for a variable is not statistically significant, and then claim that the variable "has no effect." This is equivalent to proposing a research hyp...

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