I re-read a short paper of Andrew Gelman’s yesterday about multilevel modeling, and thought “That would make a nice example for PyMC”. The paper is “Multilevel (hierarchical) modeling: what it can and cannot do, and R code for it is on his website.
To make things even easier for a casual blogger like myself, the example [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘statistics’
December 2, 2009
Multilevel (hierarchical) modeling: what it can and cannot do in Python
September 17, 2009
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I don’t feel like having that post about how big things are brewing in US health care reform on the top of my blog anymore, so here is a quick replacement: a ranking paper that caught my eye recently on arxiv, where computer scientists is applied to politics: On Ranking Senators By Their [...]
March 31, 2009
C4G @ GaTech
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a short piece on public-service applications of computer science that are coming out of a class called Computing for Good (C4G) that TCS star Santosh Vempala co-taught at Georgia Tech last spring.
This is an idea that is emerging in several ACO-related disciplines. Manuela Veloso has been running a [...]
December 5, 2008
Florence Nightingale: Health Metrics Pioneer
Science News recently ran an article on the health statistics work and data visualization work of Florence Nightingale. It’s fun for me to learn about this history, since I am such a recent immigrant to the land of health metrics. Nice quotes from Nightingale’s statistical mentor in the piece, too:
You complain that your report would [...]
