All they need to do it get their hands on the first copy, but obviously there’s no online shopping (or there would be, ahem, other online activities and no need to steal the magazine) and the proprietor of the town’s newsstand is definitely not going to sell Playboy to kids. There...
In researching for this post, I came across a concept called, “Simpson’s Paradox” (No relation). Simpson’s Paradox is only one of many ways that statistics can be misused to make a point. Simpson’s paradox involves leaving out a key variable so that, although the numbers may be ac...
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In this post, I’m going to focus on weakly informative priors for the variance parameters in a multilevel model. The running example will be a very simple multilevel model for Poisson where the log-risk is modelled using a global intercept, a covariate, and one iid Gaussian random effect0...
Maximum likelihood estimation on generalized sample spaces: an alternative resolution of Simpson’s paradox - Kläy, Foulis - 1990 () Citation Context ...ts listed above. Such maximization can effected using Lagrange multipliers; the result is very different from the classical one, as the ...
of scientific description. To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and ...