I find myself once again this week reading stats papers that range from “slightly over my head” to “I have no idea what you people are talking about,” in an attempt to figure out the right thing to do with a dataset involving observations that are not independent. The dataset consists of conversations between dyads [...]
Posts under ‘statistics’
an infrastructure of social information
In my last post, I wrote about my reaction to statistical arguments presented in a paper titled “Of Beauty, Sex and Power” by Andrew Gelman and David Weakliem (American Scientist, 97(4), 310-316). My second reaction to the paper has to do with the distortion of the effect size as it moved from journal paper to [...]
statistical power and effect size
I really love reading about statistics. When I’m having one of those days where I think about what else I might have chosen to do with my life, “become a statistician” is close to the top of the list. (“Become a meterologist” is usually #1; they also seem to have a lot of really cool [...]
thinking about bibliometrics
This is a post that I’ve had in my list of drafts since last year’s CHI conference, which included a special session for a paper titled “Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings“. The special session was held because the paper was apparently controversial—it criticized the best paper nomination and selection process: Judging quality remains a [...]
supplemental statistics
I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a news story: Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement (Beilock et al., 2010, PNAS, with Supplemental information) The researchers recruited 17 first- and second-grade teachers (all female) and assessed the math achievement of the students in their classrooms at the [...]
