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An economist reports that the cost data from Medicare are “completely irrelevant. It is clearly measures of net costs that matter, but only gross costs (analogous to sticker prices) are provided. Similar issues arise with recent requirements for hospital price transparency.”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/02/an/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 11/02/2025

economics
Hilarious Ted Talk bio: “he sold the second most expensive picture at his first exhibition — without really being able to paint.”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/01/hilarious-ted-talk-bio-he-sold-the-second-most-expensive-picture-at-his-first-exhibition-without-really-being-able-to-paint/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 11/01/2025

art
Studying sex ratios is just a lot harder than you think: effects are tiny and variation is large.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/31/studying-sex-ratios-is-just-a-lot-harder-than-you-think-effects-are-tiny-and-variation-is-large/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/31/2025

zombies
The last time it seemed that the country was coming apart

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/30/the-last-time-it-seemed-to-people-that-the-country-was-coming-apart/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/30/2025

political
The WAR war and the electoral benefits of running more moderate candidates for political office

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/29/the-war-war-and-the-electoral-benefits-of-running-more-moderate-candidates-for-political-office/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/29/2025

political
No, this is not “the most unpredictable race for mayor that New York City has seen in decades”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/28/no-this-is-not-the-most-unpredictable-race-for-mayor-that-new-york-city-has-seen-in-decades/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/28/2025

political
Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring !

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/28/survey-statistics-blue-rose-research-is-hiring/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/28/2025

causal
The stated purpose of a program is not always the same as its real purpose

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/28/the-stated-purpose-of-a-program-is-not-always-the-same-as-its-real-purpose/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/28/2025

political
Reading like it’s 1937

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/27/reading-like-its-1937/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/27/2025

literature
Hey Philip Larkin, I don’t get what you were saying here!

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/26/hey-philip-larkin-i-dont-get-what-youre-saying-here/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/26/2025

art
Even the easiest data requests can require some effort

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/25/even-the-easiest-data-requests-can-require-some-effort/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/25/2025

computing
Assistant professor position at USI in Lugano

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/24/assistant-professor-positions-at-usi-in-lugano/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/24/2025

jobs
David Owen writes about hearing aids

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/24/david-owen-writes-about-hearing-aids/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/24/2025

literature
Was Admiral Poindexter a terrorist? (Who’s in charge of your prediction market?)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/23/was-admiral-poindexter-a-terrorist-whos-in-charge-of-your-prediction-market/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/23/2025

political
Sabbatical and pre-faculty positions at Flatiron Institute in NYC

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/22/sabbatical-and-pre-faculty-positions-at-flatiron-institute-in-nyc/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/22/2025

computing
Here’s a statistics research project for you: Is the skewness of the distribution of the empirical correlation coefficient asymptotically proportional to the correlation?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/22/heres-a-statistics-research-project-for-you-is-the-skewness-of-the-distribution-of-the-empirical-correlation-coefficient-asymptotically-proportional-to-the-correlation/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/22/2025

miscellaneous
Here’s a statistics research project for you: Is the skewness of the distribution of the empirical correlation coefficient asymptotically proportional to the correlation?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/22/skew/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/22/2025

miscellaneous
Survey Statistics: individualism doesn’t work

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/21/survey-statistics-individualism-doesnt-work/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/21/2025

miscellaneous
Sabbatical and pre-faculty positions at Flatiron Institute in NYC

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/21/sabbatical-and-pre-faculty-positions-at-flatiron-institute-in-nyc/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/21/2025

computing
Reanalysis of that Nobel prizewinning study of patents and innovation (with R and Stan code)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/21/reanalysis-of-that-nobel-prizewinning-study-of-patents-and-innovation/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/21/2025

bayesian statistics statistical multilevel modeling miscellaneous inference graphics economics causal
Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/20/bayesian-probability-like-frequentist-probability-is-a-model-based-activity-that-is-mathematically-anchored-by-physical-randomization-at-one-end-and-calibration-to-a-reference-set-at-the-other/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/20/2025

bayesian
Collective sensemaking event in NYC, October 26

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/19/collective-sensemaking-event-in-nyc-october-26/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/19/2025

analysis
Aversive statistical methods explain differences in “dark” publication in PNAS across subject areas

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/19/aversive-statistical-methods-explain-differences-in-dark-publication-in-pnas-across-subject-areas/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/19/2025

zombies
The war on data, 2025 edition

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/18/the-war-on-data-2025-edition-2/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/18/2025

political
Separating the whack from the chaff in critiques of decision theory

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/17/separating-the-whack-from-the-chaff-in-critiques-of-decision-theory/

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 10/17/2025

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