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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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Stein’s Method « Normal Deviate
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Thoughts on Statistics and Machine Learning. Nonparametric Regression, ABC and CNN. THE END ». I have mentioned Stein’s method. In passing, a few times on this blog. Today I want to talk about Stein’s method in a bit of detail. 1 What Is Stein’s Method? Stein’s method, due to Charles Stein, is actually quite old, going back to 1972. But there has been a great deal of interest in the method lately. As in many things, Stein was ahead of his time. Of some random variable. We want to bound. If and only if.
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Extra babies on Valentine’s Day, fewer on Halloween? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Recently in the sister blog. The tabloids strike again. Extra babies on Valentine’s Day, fewer on Halloween? On 14 February 2012, 9:05 am. Just in time for the holiday, X pointed. Me to an article. By Becca Levy, Pil Chung, and Martin Slade reporting that, during a recent eleven-year period, more babies were born on Valentine’s Day and fewer on Halloween compared to neighboring days:. Filed under Decision Theory. 8211; where I live you ha...
