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Coding tips for grad students, by grad students
Kyle writes from Sri Lanka with his stats programming tips for the new PBFs. It’s all things that old PBFs and even old young professors can benefit from: • It’s taken me 2 years to jump on the version...
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Age-heaping and Hedgehogs
I heard an interesting talk a few weeks ago about “age-heaping” in survey responses, the phenomenon where people remember ages imprecisely and say that their siblings are ages that are divisible by 5...
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Computation time and model development
20 seconds, 20 minutes, or 20 hours. These are all amounts of time that a computational method I’ve been working at some time has taken to complete processing. They each lead to a very different...
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Statistics in Python: Calculating R^2
I wanted to include some old-fashioned statistics in a paper recently, and did some websearching on how to calculate R^2 in Python. It’s all very touchy, it seems. Here’s what I found:...
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