I was reading this study on the impact of Weberian bureaucracy on economic growth published in Comparative Political Studies. It’s a great article and I can highly recommend reading it. I like that the study presents most of the results in figures. In fact, there are more figures than tables in the article. However, a […]
Category: statistics
Potpourri: Statistics #69
782. Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling from Spreadsheets to Code 783. Reflecting on “Vote Cones” 784. Least squares as springs 785. Applying PCA to fictional character personalities 786. Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with R 787. tiktokr: An R Scraper for Tiktok 788. Efficient and beautiful data synthesis: Taking your tidyverse skills to […]
‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales … and Other Fairy Tales
One of the most popular studies on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a study published in Economic Inquiry in 2015. The abstract is viewed more than half a million times and the study is downloaded ~80,000 times. These are impressive numbers. The study is in top 10 of the all time total number […]
Potpourri: Statistics #68
758. Rain, Rain, Go away: 137 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable 759. Awesome R Learning Resources 760. A Quick Guide for Journalists to the Use and Reporting of Opinion Polls 761. Mapping congressional roll calls 762. Fancy Times and Scales with COVID data 763. Colors via clrs.cc in R […]
25 guidelines for improving psychological research
I was rereading the paper ‘The New Statistics: Why and How‘ published in Psychological Science the other day. It’s a great paper and I can highly recommend reading it. If you are busy (and I guess you are), make sure to at least read the 25 guidelines for improving psychological research (in Table 1). Here […]