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S1E22: Factor Analysis — The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

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Greg and Patrick are inspired by possibly the greatest Western movie ever filmed as they navigate The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of factor analysis. In addition to arguing that exploratory factor analysis isn’t really exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis isn’t really confirmatory, they adroitly traverse topics including sabbatical do-overs, Corona Academy, leeches, tall […]

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S1E21: Integrative Data Analysis — The Quest for a Cooperative, Cumulative Science

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Patrick and Greg are inspired by the community support we are witnessing during this time of crisis, and they expand this discussion into the community of science. They drill down into the collaborative approach of integrative data analysis in which models are fit to data that have been aggregated across multiple independent samples. They also

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S1E20: Finite Mixture Modeling & Sir Mixture-A-Lot

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Greg and Patrick waste an hour of your time drunkenly wandering along the dangerous cliffs overlooking mixture modeling. In addition to exploring the potential promises and unadulterated dangers of mixture models as a mode of scientific inquiry, they also mention drama nerds, hunchbacks, date night for the Lincolns, name dropping, UConn women’s basketball, inductive-deductive wishin’-and-a-hopin’,

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S1E19: Live from The Rusty — Irish Storytelling & Quantitative Limericks

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Patrick and Greg celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish storytelling of some of their own epic academic fails, interspersed with a selection of quantitative limericks submitted by Quantitude listeners (as well as a few of their own). The final selections are read by a special guest (who, be warned in advance, is a bit grumpy).

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S1E18: A Conversation with Katherine Masyn — The Power of Three

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Patrick and Greg have a blast hanging out with quant super-star Katherine Masyn, arguably one of the coolest people on earth. In addition to talking about professional development, the futility of making plans, and how to make meaningful contributions to science, the trio also discuss the power of three, mad cow disease, evaporated metal films,

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S1E17: Planned Missing Designs (or, How to Beat a Metaphor to Death)

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Greg and Patrick start with what seems like a reasonable metaphor linking musical compositions to planned missing data designs, and then they proceed to beat it to death. Then, just when you think they’ve buried it, they dig it back up and beat the carcass some more before eventually just running out of time. In

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S1E16: Missing Data: (IF EPISODE=16 THEN EPISODE=-999)

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In Episode 16 of Quantitude, Patrick and Greg have more fun than is probably socially acceptable when talking about missing data. In addition to embracing the Zen-like paradox of “the presence of missing data,” they also discuss West Point, “is” versus “are,” middle school English teachers, relentless tenacity, talking narwhals, being completely pregnant, taking in

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S1E15: Academia and the Chamber of Secrets

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Greg and Patrick embark on a free-ranging discussion of many of the things no one bothers to tell you when entering academia, some that were particularly (and often pleasantly) surprising. They also talk about learning to fly, parenting, Richard Russo, Bayesian personality, Craisins, just noticeable differences, crayon giraffes, academic mulligans, final_final_final drafts, dead birds, Britney

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S1E13: How Do I Get Scale Scores? Weight, Weight… Don’t Tell Me…

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Greg and Patrick pursue several topics raised on prior episodes on scale reliability and measurement invariance to their logical conclusion. Namely, they ponder the multitude of persnickety issues associated with putting a set of items into the psychometric sausage maker to grind out scale scores for use in subsequent analysis. In addition to bickering with

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