In this week’s episode Patrick and Greg have some serious fun with song lyrics they misunderstood at some point in their personal lives. They then use this as a thinly veiled excuse to explore some very basic statistical things that they have also misunderstood at some point in their professional lives. Along the way they […]
S6E19 Misheard (Statistical) Lyrics: A Mixtape Read More »
In this week’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about outcomes that are count variables: when you need to worry about them and what you can do about them within your analytical models. Along the way they also mention: Bela Lugosi, Vlad the Impaler, Patrick the Poker, Count Chocula, Count von Count, drunken bar brawls, secret
S6E18 Count Variables Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore both the challenges and the opportunities of age-period-cohort analysis when trying to understand the complexities of human behavior over time. Along the way they also discuss bachelor night, Dave Brubeck, pay phones, street lights, global nuclear war, lazy thinking, I’m not a crook, biking to grandmas, HMS
S6E17 Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick shine a flashlight on correspondence analysis and find that this is an extraordinarily cool yet often neglected method similar to factor analysis but applied to nominal contingency tables. Along the way they also discuss online personality tests, marital therapy, modern antibiotics, the Newlywed Game, grand slams, the advantages
S6E16 Correspondence Analysis Read More »
In this weeks episode Greg and Patrick talk about loglinear models as a clever method to deconstruct the potential dependencies among two or more categorical variables. Along the way, they also discuss Children of the Corn, Mr. Magoo glasses, tighty whities, Fogo de Chão, blinded by hand soap, logarithms as drug mules, Euler Euler Euler,
S6E15 Loglinear Models: Someone Should Have Told You Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick invoke the very personal interpretation of modern art as a framework for thinking about the exceedingly cool topic of rotation in exploratory factor analysis. Along the way they also discuss Venice Beach, haystacks, drug fronts, being insufferable, ignoramuses, .22’s and stop signs, weak pivots, honking factors, pooping out
S6E14 Factor Rotation: But is it Art? Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about group coding approaches, like dummy variables and effect code variables, for helping to analyze group differences within the larger general linear model. Along they way they also discuss hacking up a lung, made for audio faces, walking pneumonia, putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet, cards in
S6E13 Group Codes in GLM: Dummy and Dummier Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore the fascinating world of suppressor variables which have the nearly magical, yet fully understandable, distinction of being unrelated to the dependent variable yet serving to enhance the predictive utility of other variables in the model. Along the way they also discuss getting the giggles, giving away our
S6E12 Suppression Unrepressed Read More »
This week we just want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, and we look forward to sharing more quant fun in the new year. Please take care everyone! Related Episodes S5E11 Statistical Ideas That Die Hard S4E12 Secret Father Christmas Actually S3E14: Patrick & Greg’s New Year’s Balls Drop S2E16: Holiday Airing of Grievances
S6E11 A Brief Holiday Message… Read More »
In this week’s episode, Greg and Patrick talk about instrumental variables: what they are, how they help to make causal claims, and the many assumptions and challenges associated with them. Along the way they also mention: Festival of Side Dishes, pilot turkeys, gutsy bagpipes, charter schools, drama kids, RCT wieners, Space Force, licking a rainbow,
S6E10 Instrumental Variables (Dad)Rock! Read More »
