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Category Archives: statistics

1. This one’s only for the metrics crowd March 12, 2010

   Posted in research, statistics.

   No comments
2. Asterisk inflation in the social sciences February 20, 2010

   Posted in economics, research, statistics.

   3 comments
3. Love, statistically speaking February 15, 2010

   Posted in statistics.

   1 comment
4. My causal inference and research design syllabus… January 14, 2010

   Posted in research, statistics, teaching.

   3 comments
5. The greatest xkcd of all time? January 8, 2010

   Posted in statistics.

   5 comments
6. Are restaurants supersizing America? October 27, 2009

   Posted in research, statistics.

   2 comments
7. The coin toss: not 50-50 after all October 24, 2009

   Posted in research, statistics.

   10 comments
8. After the surge: doing quantitative research in the field October 16, 2009

   Posted in economics, political science, research, statistics.

   3 comments
9. A history of jobs in America September 16, 2009

   Posted in economics, statistics.

   5 comments
10. Statistics bleg September 4, 2009

    Posted in research, statistics.

    11 comments
11. Mostly harmless econometrics? August 16, 2009

    Posted in books, statistics.

    1 comment
12. One word: statistics August 11, 2009

    Posted in statistics.

    13 comments
13. The hitchhiker’s guide to econometrics February 8, 2009

    Posted in books, statistics.

    2 comments
14. Obama, statistically speaking January 21, 2009

    Posted in miscellany, statistics.

    No comments
15. So you want to be an impact evaluator? A cautionary tale January 7, 2009

    Posted in development, research, statistics.

    11 comments
16. How to raise income per capita growth overnight November 28, 2008

    Posted in miscellany, statistics.

    5 comments
17. Development Dentanomics August 29, 2008

    Posted in development, statistics.

    7 comments
18. Why public opinion polls are garbage March 3, 2008

    Posted in miscellany, statistics.

    6 comments
19. A numbers cruncher on the front lines of justice February 7, 2008

    Posted in miscellany, statistics.

    1 comment
20. Reinventing the scatterplot November 8, 2007

    Posted in miscellany, statistics.

    No comments