#Models

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

I think we probably need to get rid of probabilistic election forecasting, not because the models aren't sound in their own right but they are made to play a role

Wouter van der Horst

DerWouter

Can someone tell me what the Mar-A-Lago "model show" was in January 2018? Why are the models rented? Why is Russian Anna Lapaeva involved? Why does she think Donald is

Aidan Wright

aidangcw

In late Dec I solicited suggestions for what a structural equation modeling (SEM) course should contain. I'm grateful for everyone who engaged & replied.I promised to summarize those in the

Alexandre Terrien

aterrien

"'Physical risk' or 'climate impact risk' used to be a niche concern... That’s changed quickly... That said, there’s a steep learning curve with assessing physical climate risk. This includes figuring

Rick Griffin OF THE FUTURE

RicksWriting

Late night thoughts: how did ancient chariots ever work at all? This is pre-rubber tires and shocks, and they're expected to operate at high speed across open plains undoubtedly filled

Karen Hao

_KarenHao

I see this argument all the time from tech people: Building gargantuan AI models may be computationally, environmentally, and financially costly. But if those models then go on to solve

Shreya Shankar

sh_reya

Got my invite to the @OpenAI GPT-3 API from @gdb. I actually think it deserves more hype than it’s getting, but not necessarily for the magical reasons Twitter touts. Why?

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

Fixed effects models are a great choice for longitudinal #epi research if: 1) your independent variable of interest is time-varying (& variation is present in the data), 2) you have

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

Then, focusing on hospitalisations & deaths, we get this. We see we get only 12,029 post-lockdown deaths - a bit less than for a modest flu season. There are quite

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Colleges and universities are going to be starting up in a matter of a weeks. If I were a student, staff member, or faculty member on a campus planning

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

In the discussion on A-level grades, a reminder that the Government is well aware of the problems of models and algorithms, and their implementation In 2012, the West Coast franchise

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

TomLevenson

Just lurked in a review session for the sprout's Econ 101 (virtual) course.As usual, the instructors reminded everyone that the perfect competition models aren't true. But also as usual, they

Simon Sarris

simonsarris

I didn't do any dev until high school (visual basic class!) and then circa 2006 my (computer illiterate) dad desperately tried to convince me not to go to college for

Anthony Lee Zhang

AnthonyLeeZhang

Largely agree with Ben's points here, some other thoughts...In physics, mathematical models are either basically correct or not. Newton's laws either hold in all cases or are a wrong (or

Kathy Hoffman

Supt_Hoffman

Today, @azedschools released a new statewide tracker to indicate whether schools are in distance, hybrid, or in-person learning models. With no indication that #COVID19 cases will slow in the coming

Sean J. Taylor

seanjtaylor

Confessions of a very applied statistician (a thread) I try to think of a model for almost everything I observe. Some things bend naturally to this practice, you pick a

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