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[76] Heterogeneity Is Replicable: Evidence From Maluma, MTurk, and Many Labs
A number of authors have recently proposed that (i) psychological research is highly unpredictable, with identical studies obtaining surprisingly different results, (ii) the presence of heterogeneity decreases the replicability of psychological...
Dean Eckles
@uri_sohn @alexdamour @johnmyleswhite You're calling a permutation test a bootstrap again :)
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How Michael Cohen Turned Against President Trump
The president’s longtime fixer had, for months, sought “a little loving and respect.” Confidential emails and texts chronicle their momentous falling out.
Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects by Bradley Shapiro, Günter J. Hitsch, Anna Tuchman :: SSRN
We provide generalizable and robust results on the causal sales effect of TV advertising based on the distribution of advertising elasticities for a large numbe
A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF
What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019? This article offers two things: a brief, high-level technical assessment of the document, and a question of culture: why everyone...
Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising by Bradley Shapiro :: SSRN
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs is controversial and has ambiguous potential welfare effects. In this paper, I estimate costs and be
Warning people off tainted drinking water may have killed children
When wells were found to contain arsenic, people in Bangladesh turned to contaminated water sources. Kids died.
With insulin prices skyrocketing, there’s plenty of blame to go around
A review of insulin's 100-year history makes it clear that drug makers, their generic counterparts, doctors, and FDA all share blame for the broken market.
Dean Eckles
Regulatory causes of future delays in new generic insulin: A poorly executed transition that means no drug makers want to apply until nearly a year from now
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MIA: Alex Damour, Extracting causal signal from high-dimensional data: challenges and techniques
April 10, 2019 Alexander D'Amour Google Brain Multi-cause causal inference: challenges and techniques Abstract: In many scientific endeavors, such as GWAS, w...
Inferential Approaches for Network Analysis: AMEN for Latent Factor Models | Political Analysis
Inferential Approaches for Network Analysis: AMEN for Latent Factor Models - Volume 27 Issue 2 - Shahryar Minhas, Peter D. Hoff, Michael D. Ward
Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis
(2002). Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 97, No. 460, pp. 1090-1098.
Dean Eckles
What's the best paper to catch up on the state of the art for latent space models of networks? With an eye to estimation and statistical inference in practice. Thinking of doi.org/10.1198/016214… as the jumping off point.
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r/unpopularopinion - Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the picture if the black hole
12,348 votes and 3,271 comments so far on Reddit
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Arrested in London
Mr. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in 2012. He faces a British charge of skipping bail and is wanted in the United States on charges of releasing secret documents.
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“Eradicating Ideological Viruses” | China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims
This report presents new evidence of the Chinese government’s mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment, and the increasingly pervasive controls on daily life. Throughout the region, the Turkic Muslim population of 13 million is subjected...
Yann LeCun
pytorch_GAN_zoo: a open-srouce PyTorch GANfest from FAIR that includes progressive GANs and such.