Category: Class – Applied Statistics

Woke Nature

By Briggs on December 7, 2018 • ( 7 Comments )

It has been deemed as unscientific to say that a person’s genitals determines their sex. Genes, too, have been disallowed as scientific evidence. Nature says so, and they are the preeminent science […]

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

By Briggs on November 27, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

Query: now that I’m a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don’t see how they’d help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via email. Next […]

The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials

By Briggs on November 6, 2018 • ( 5 Comments )

There was a paper a short while back, “Why all randomised controlled trials produce biased results“, by Alexander Krauss, in the Annals of Medicine. Raised some academic eyebrows. Krauss says, “RCTs face […]

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part IX Stan — Logistic & Beta Regression

By Briggs on October 3, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Review! We’re doing logistic and beta regression this time. These aren’t far apart, because the observable for both lives between 0 and 1; for logistic it is 0 or 1; for beta, […]

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VIII — Starting Stan

By Briggs on September 19, 2018 • ( 5 Comments )

Review! You must at least review the first lessons—all class material is on one page for ease. I’ll have more words about the mysticism of simulation, but I’ve said it all before […]

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VII New (Free) Software Tobit Regression

By Briggs on August 24, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

Previous post in the series (or click above on Class). REVIEW! Download the code: mcmc.pred.R, mcmc.pred.examples.R. If you downloaded before, download again. This is version 0.3! Only the example code changed since […]