A story of fake-data checking being used to shoot down a flawed analysis at the Farm Credit Agency

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-06-05

Summary:

Austin Kelly writes: While reading your postings [or here] on the subject of testing your model by running fake data I was reminded of the fact that I got one of these kinds of tests actually published in a GAO report back in the day. Reading your posts on Unz and political vs. economic discourse [...]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2013/06/05/a-story-of-fake-data-checking-being-used-to-shoot-down-a-careless-analysis-at-the-farm-credit-agency/

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Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

06/05/2013, 14:20

Date published:

06/05/2013, 09:26