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Survey Statistics: textbooks adding non-probability sampling chapters

Last week I asked for your favorite survey statistics textbooks. Thank you for many fun recommendations here and on Bluesky ! I am compiling a reading list for after the election....

Survey Statistics: more on SynthMargins and Bayes-Raking

Last week we discussed SynthMargins, a method from the poster Modeling Complex Contingency Tables that uses partial information (margins) about poststratification variables. On the...

Survey Statistics: favorite textbooks ?

This series has used a few survey statistics textbooks, see my list below. Which of your favorites am I missing ? Kish 1965: Särndal, Swensson, Wretman 1992: Groves et al. 2009: Lu...

Survey Statistics: logit shift and raking

We’ve been discussing how to use population margin information about poststratification variables (see Modeling Complex Contingency Tables and SynthMargins & Bayes-Raking). I w...

These Statistics Are Insane AND True

NWSL stats and minutiae after Week 19

Here’s a look at some stats and minutiae following Week 16 of the 2026 National Women’s Soccer League season. We’ll keep evolving this space every week to try and keep you informed...

Thursday assorted links

1. “Some crazy stats from this new JEL paper: – IV est. average 3–10x OLS (meta analysis) – Sign. results 30x more likely to be published in experimental econ (Andrews & Kasy)...

Stats Of The Weird: Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 Season Preview

For those who follow the site, there’s nothing we love more than weird stats. The more random, obscure, and downright bizarre, the better. We’ll offer weird stats from each contest...

MMLU Benchmark: 57 Subjects, Label Errors and Score Margins

The MMLU benchmark tests models on four-option questions in 57 subjects. See per-subject question counts and margins, label errors, variants and top scores.

NWSL stats and minutiae after Week 20

Here’s a look at some stats and minutiae following Week 20 of the 2026 NWSL season. We’ll keep evolving this space every week to try and keep you informed. Have an idea or an addit...

Your LLM Telemetry Table Does Not Have One Denominator

Originally published on hexisteme notes. I had an LLM telemetry report with the usual reassuring furniture: medians, interquartile ranges, sample sizes, and bootstrap intervals. T...

AI Agent Statistics 2026: Every Number Checked at Its Source

The most-quoted AI agent statistics count intent, and real use in any single department is no more than 10 percent, finds a source-checked analysis by bdautomated 75 figures from 1...

NWSL stats and minutiae after Week 23

Here’s a look at some stats and minutiae following Week 23 of the 2026 NWSL season. We’ll keep evolving this space every week to try and keep you informed. Have an idea or an addit...

NWSL stats and minutiae after Week 22

Here’s a look at some stats and minutiae following Week 22 of the 2026 NWSL season. We’ll keep evolving this space every week to try and keep you informed. Have an idea or an addit...

NWSL stats and minutiae after Week 25

Here’s a look at some stats and minutiae following Week 25 of the 2026 NWSL season. We’ll keep evolving this space every week to try and keep you informed. Have an idea or an addit...

Survey Statistics: ANOVA follow-up

Rodney Sparapani commented on the ANOVA post about struggles with multilevel models, saying ANOVA is more straightforward. I also struggle with multilevel models, but I don’t find...