Richard McElreath 🦔 / is on Nostr

Anthropologist, telling anyone who will listen that, if we are very careful and try very hard, we might not completely mislead ourselves. Leipzig.

Last Notes

2024-07-16 11:56:31

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis tells me Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners who have influenced me so much. Book details: https://xcelab.net/rm/
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2024-06-23 08:39:45

Looking for a mind-growing distraction? How about my 3 part intro to Bayesian causal inference. It's like a condensed version of my book, 10 weeks of causal computation in 3 short blog posts. Take with plenty of water. https://elevanth.org/blog/2021/06/15/regression-fire-and-dangerous-things-1-3/

2024-02-11 11:51:41

Like Bayesian stats & causal inference? Like secret BONUS content? Some of my Stat Rethinking lectures have BONUS topics hiding at end: misclassification, survival analysis, poststratification, Mundlak machines, Cholesky factors, floating point monsters. Timed links in next post
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2024-01-27 07:41:13

Do you like bibtex? Do you do doi? Do you want to get bibtex refs from doi on the command line? Yes you do, you wonderful monster. Try this line (adjust doi as needed, and see alt text for source too):
curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.10110
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2024-01-02 12:01:34

Every time I mention the 3rd edition of my book, people throw money at me and ask when it will be published. Here are some evasive answers and broad details: https://elevanth.org/blog/2024/01/02/the-third-edition-the-dotted-half-note-of-editions/

2023-12-05 18:57:45

Causal salad, causal design, causal inference. I did a 3 hour workshop in Leipzig yesterday on causal inference, aka why your regressions are garbage lolsob. Here's a recording of me covering the same content, I promise it's not boring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPYUVmY3NM

2023-11-28 12:22:58

Local registration for the 2024 round of my FREE OPEN ONLINE Statistical Rethinking course has begun. I'll open up registration to all on Sunday 3 December. Registration link will appear on the course github page: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024
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2023-09-17 13:55:55

Recently discovered Angela Collier's sci-com channel (not on mast?). This is a one-take history of string theory miscommunication, delivered while she plays a video game. No fancy editing. Just spitting facts and slaying mobs. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
Idea: Who wants to see me complain about stats while playing Slay the Spire?

2023-08-23 10:51:17

I told a colleague that logistic regression is AI and they got mad at me, so I made a chart. Find yourself. I am "Tinder is AI".
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