Statistics Blogs

FiveThirtyEight

• What to expect from Trump's address to Congress
• How Trump's push for Canadian statehood would hurt the GOP
• Americans voted for Trump, but don't support his agenda
• How qualified are Trump's cabinet picks?
• No, Trump can't cancel the 2028 election. But he could still weaken democracy.

Data Witch (Danielle Navarro)

• Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice
• A cocaine skeptic starts an unwise habit
• Markdown styling in R plots and tables
• Some thoughts on checking the R session
• Mapping runkeeper data

John D. Cook

• Bayesian OCR
• A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof
• AI is an intelligence multiplier
• The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about
• Navier-Stokes in the news

R-bloggers

• chilemapas is back on CRAN
• How to Create a Function in R: Custom Median & ggplot2 Examples
• Navigating Challenges in Spatial Machine Learning
• ahead (Time Series Forecasting with uncertainty quantification) gets a lot faster to install: most dependencies are now optional
• Research Workflows

Reddit (subreddit statistics)

• [Question] Stats course or book suggestion
• [E] STATs text book reccomendations
• Struggling to understand statistics in psychology research [Q] [E]
• [Q] Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate worth it?
• [Q] need help choosing my major

Statistics by Jim

• 7 Tips for Choosing the Right Statistical Test
• Data Collection Methods: Step-By-Step Guide with Examples
• ANOVA Calculator
• Positive Predictive Value: Meaning, Formula, and Interpretation
• Median Absolute Deviation Calculator

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

• “Belief” is not something you have; rather, it’s a relationship between thought and action.
• When journals are slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push back
• Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong)
• Living on the Edge: Aggressive mediocrity at the summit of America’s intellectual culture
• Survey Statistics: Pew Research finds “No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls”