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The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials
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The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials

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,…
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VIII
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VIII

Review! We're continuing with the CGPA example. The data is on line, and of unknown origin, but good enough to use as an example. We will build a correlational model,…
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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing
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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

Nothing can cure significance testing. Except a bullet to the p-value. (That sound you heard was from readers pretending to swoon.) The paper is out and official---and free!: "Manipulating the…
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People Are Less Religious When Government Is Bigger
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People Are Less Religious When Government Is Bigger

This is making the news. A guy we've seen before is up to his usual statistical shenanigans in the peer-reviewed paper "Religion as an Exchange System: The Interchangeability of God…
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Correlation of Non-Procreative Sex & Lack of Traditional Religion
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Correlation of Non-Procreative Sex & Lack of Traditional Religion

Gallup has published two new polls. The first estimates the percent of those desiring non-procreative sex in each state. The second guesses the percent of non-affiliation with traditional religion (Christianity).…
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part IX
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part IX

Review! Last time we successfully computed our model (8):     (8) Pr(CGPA = i | guesses of new measures, grading rules, old obs, model), where i = 0,...,5. The model…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVIII
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVIII

Item Decline in the Fall (or Late Summer, Anyway): by Fred Gibbon This is Fred Reed at his curmudgeonly best. Item The Next Woman To Try Playing In A PGA…
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Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford,  Realists vs. Fantasists.
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Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford, Realists vs. Fantasists.

We're interested here in why people believe this female Ford's charges against male SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh. Many progressives say Ford's evidence, even at this late date (I'm editing this on…
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