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What decision are we trying to make, anyway?

A simple example why statistical significance is insufficient for action

Can you have a model without data?

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What decision are we trying to make, anyway?

The crux of the statistical significance issue.

How to reconcile the regression equation from spline terms

Using the {rms::rcs} function

Can you have a model without data?

Yes, by being a Bayesian.

How do you assess the proportional-odds assumption? Directly.

A simple visual check.

A simple example why statistical significance is insufficient for action

It ignores the basic question: “How much?”

Statistical significance is…insignificant

“A cheap way to get marketable results” -William Kruskal

The overlap weight in survival analysis

A simulation review

The Evasive Spline

Basis Functions & Splines

Exploring COM Poisson regression

A method for underdispersed count data

A look at collider bias

There has been a lot of buzz around “causal inference” and given how fundamental the name seems to statistics, I picked up The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect…