Statistics Blogs

FiveThirtyEight

• What to expect from Trump's address to Congress
• No, Trump can't cancel the 2028 election. But he could still weaken democracy.
• The 10 state legislative chambers that could flip in 2024
• What can we expect from Trump's first 100 days?
• Republicans start 2025 with the smallest House majority since 1931

Data Witch (Danielle Navarro)

• Some thoughts on checking the R session
• Mapping runkeeper data
• Two githubs, one laptop
• Some notes on survey weights
• Some notes on probability judgement

John D. Cook

• Solving a chess puzzle with Claude and Prolog
• Formally proving a calculation with Claude and Lean
• Pulling on a thread
• Aitken acceleration before Aitken
• The Laplace limit

R-bloggers

• Test Doubles Taxonomy for R: Dummy, Stub, Spy, Mock, Fake
• Ronny Hernandez Mora, Joel Nitta, and Nick Tierney Join rOpenSci Software Peer Review Editorial Team
• Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026
• Little useless-useful R functions – Ulam Prime Spiral
• Five recent R-universe features you might have missed

Reddit (subreddit statistics)

• [Q] How should I interpret a theoretically important predictor that is non-significant despite prior literature supporting it ?
• [R] Can I get into a PhD with these mark?
• [Q] [Question] i need help with my research statistics
• [Question] Hazard function definition
• What are the top journals in Computational Statistics (non-bayesian, algoirthmic, simulations) [R]?

Statistics by Jim

• Data Collection Methods: Step-By-Step Guide with Examples
• ANOVA Calculator
• Positive Predictive Value: Meaning, Formula, and Interpretation
• Median Absolute Deviation Calculator
• Median Absolute Deviation: Definition, Finding & Formula

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

• Jazz and quantum mechanics: Eventually Dmitri realized that they are kind of similar
• Adjusting for nonrepresentativeness in continuous norming using multilevel regression and poststratification.
• “The Data Analyst’s Guide to Cause and Effect”
• From a message I sent to a potential co-blogger
• Survey Statistics: should MRP workflow include LOCO-CV ?