I saw a new study published in Journal of Conflict Resolution. Here is a part of the abstract I found interesting: “Offering a first quantitative test of domestic drivers of transnational repression, using multivariate regression analysis, the paper finds that as repression intensifies domestically, the likelihood of that state subsequently escalating its transnational repression also […]
Category: statistics
Natural experiments and the Tragedy of the Commons
Natural experiments are experiments that take place in the ‘real’ world (i.e., in ‘nature’) without any randomisation managed by the researcher. In contrast to a ‘normal’ experiment where only the involved researchers are aware of the experiment and the data collection, natural experiments are often available to all researchers with access to the relevant data. […]
Potpourri: Statistics #97
1862. Data Vis Dispatch: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27 1863. Learning Julia with #TidyTuesday and Tidier.jl 1864. Introduction to Data Visualization for the Web 1865. How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap 1866. Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators 1867. Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R 1868. Using […]
National narcissism and proportion estimation in surveys
In a study titled ‘We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History’, the authors conclude that most people overestimate the contribution of the country they are currently living in to world history. This is, according to the authors, evidence of national narcissism. The authors asked students in 35 countries […]
Correlations as effect sizes in data visualisations
Anscombe’s quartet highlights the importance of data visualisation when interpreting the relationship between two variables. That is, a simple correlation coefficient is not sufficient to understand the relationship between two variables. We want to see the data. For a great example on the many different data patterns that can lie behind a correlation coefficient, check […]