statistics you can probably trust

For a few years now I’ve been chipping away at Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank Harrell. Between the exposition, the… Read more

Someone texted me the following image and asked for my response. So what would I rather do? Flip 3 coins… Read more

If you insert a stargazer table into R Markdown that outputs an HTML file, you may get a p-value note… Read more

In his book Regression Modeling Strategies, 2nd Ed, Frank Harrell provides a list of what he calls the “most useful… Read more

Take a look at this scatterplot: It's clear there is a relationship between x and y, but the relationship is… Read more

For reasons I no longer remember I decided a while back to reproduce Figure 1.5.2 from Casella and Berger (page… Read more

One of my first blog posts on this site simulated rolling a die 6 times and observing if side i… Read more

When you fit a generalized linear model (GLM) in R and call confint on the model object, you get confidence… Read more

Much has been written about Benford's Law, that weird phenonmenon where if you have a naturally occuring set of numerical… Read more

I was reading this sobering article about the rise of suicide rates in the United States and decided to read… Read more