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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

124 points by zaik 27 days ago | 85 comments

Andrew Gelman blog post about Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson posting 258 working papers to SSRN in 2026, apparently aided by AI.

We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

50 points by Tomte 1 month ago | 7 comments

One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

89 points by paulpauper 2 months ago | 17 comments

The continuing "Q collar" scandal(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

38 points by luu 2 months ago | 13 comments

What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

117 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 81 comments

False claims in a widely-cited paper(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

305 points by qsi 7 months ago | 127 comments

A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

681 points by timr 9 months ago | 350 comments

Andrew Gelman blog post arguing a highly cited 2014 Management Science paper on corporate sustainability and performance is fatally flawed and uncorrected.

Is there a balance to be struck between simple hierarchical models and(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

35 points by luu 1 year ago | 6 comments

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

99 points by hackandthink 1 year ago | 24 comments

A Post Mortem on the Gino Case(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

155 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 year ago | 87 comments

An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

99 points by luu 1 year ago | 215 comments

How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

42 points by tchalla 1 year ago | 69 comments

Those correction notices, in full(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

110 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 28 comments

Bad science as genre fiction(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

20 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 7 comments

Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

75 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 60 comments

Defining Statistical Models in Jax?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

103 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 18 comments

Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

30 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 3 comments

Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

6 points by goldfishgold 2 years ago | 1 comments

The River, the Village, and the Fort: Nate Silver's New Book, "On the Edge"(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

15 points by edward 2 years ago | 4 comments

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

808 points by kgwgk 2 years ago | 424 comments

Blog post on Andrew Gelman's statistics blog discussing a suspicious numerical pattern in the announced results of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election.

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

293 points by luu 2 years ago | 103 comments

Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

54 points by luu 2 years ago | 80 comments

Statistics Blunder at the Supreme Court(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

15 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 3 comments

How often is the wife taller than the husband?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

18 points by luu 2 years ago | 5 comments

Randomization in such studies is arguably a negative in practice(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

10 points by luu 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Bayesian Cringe (2021)(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

37 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 13 comments

Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

40 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 6 comments

Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidence intervals(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

45 points by luu 2 years ago | 9 comments

The Dean of Engineering at UofNevada wrote a paper so bad, you can't believe it(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

61 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 20 comments

Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

101 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 87 comments

Pinker was right, I was wrong(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

39 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 14 comments

The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

201 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 108 comments

Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

28 points by luu 2 years ago | 27 comments

Bayesians moving from defense to offense(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

185 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 89 comments

Russell's Paradox of ghostwriters(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

25 points by luu 2 years ago | 21 comments

Dorothy Bishop on the prevalence of scientific fraud(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

23 points by nextos 2 years ago | 7 comments

I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

178 points by magoghm 2 years ago | 222 comments

A successful example of "adversarial collaboration"(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

105 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 37 comments

Questions about synthetic control methods in causal inference(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

28 points by luu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Non-Standard Errors [pdf](statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

60 points by luu 3 years ago | 7 comments

What happened with HMOs?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

28 points by luu 3 years ago | 31 comments

Using predictions from arbitrary models to get tighter confidence intervals(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

66 points by luu 3 years ago | 3 comments

Analog computing and hybrid computing: The view from 1962(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

39 points by luu 3 years ago | 3 comments

ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

47 points by luu 3 years ago | 39 comments