Five years ago, when I was working at the University of Kent, I wrote up some teaching material (with valuable help by Zoltán Fazekas). The material was publicly available under the name Quantitative Politics with R at qpolr.com. I introduced the material in a post back in 2019. In short, I have decided not to […]
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25 interesting facts #24
576. Beethoven’s assessments of his works are reliably associated with citation measures of aesthetic success (Kozbelt 2007) 577. On average, people underestimate how much other people appreciate being reached out to (Liu et al. 2022) 578. Hippocrates was the first to document that the heart is a muscle (Tsoucalas and Sgantzos 2017) 579. There is […]
Hvor lang er valgkampen sammenlignet med tidligere valgkampe? #3
Den 1. november skal der være valg til folketinget. I 2015 og 2019 kiggede jeg på, hvor lang valgkampen ville være sammenlignet med tidligere valgkampe. Denne valgkamp skal ikke være nogen undtagelse. I figuren nedenfor viser jeg hvor lang valgkampen er i år sammenlignet med tidligere år. Valgkampen vil i år være 27 dage. Det […]
Potpourri: Statistics #88
1470. D’ya Like DAGs? A Survey on Structure Learning and Causal Discovery 1471. Custom Discrete Color Scales for ggplot2 1472. A New Coefficient of Correlation 1473. Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R 1474. The case for variable labels in R 1475. Fooled by beautiful data: Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social […]
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I am 34 33 32 now. Here is a fun fact: I’m older than half of the world’s population. Actually, it turns out that all dogs alive when I was born are, according to Wikipedia, long gone. I am by most sensible metrics not young anymore. Maybe I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking […]