Survey Statistics: 2 different uses of simulated data
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Last month Andrew wrote: I use simulated data to understand how a model works; it can be viewed as a form of mathematical analysis, a way of working out the implications of a set o...
Last week we discussed SynthMargins, a method from the poster Modeling Complex Contingency Tables that uses partial information (margins) about poststratification variables. On the...
We’ve been discussing how to use population margin information about poststratification variables (see Modeling Complex Contingency Tables and SynthMargins & Bayes-Raking). I w...
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...
tl;dr. We’re still stuck. It was 30 years ago that Frédéric Bois, Jiming Jiang, and I published our paper on hierarchical modeling for toxicology. It was a successful paper–it’s be...
Andrew recently answered “Why did ANOVA fall out of fashion?”: Anova is still important; it’s just been subsumed by hierarchical models. The link is to my 2005 paper, Analysis of v...
In a famous (to readers of this blog) example of statistical error, a researcher reported that beautiful parents were 36% more likely to have girl babies. The saps at Freakonomics...
It’s time for another one of Bob’s favorite sort of post, which is when I use simulation to demonstrate a statistical principle. 1. Flogging a dead horse The issue in question came...
A fitted statsmodels model computes a more than just the array of numbers most code pulls out of it.
From a chocolate bar with no price tag to a marketing mix model in PyMC, and the 200-year-old integral that stood in between. The post Why You Think Like a Bayesian but Were Taught...
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...
A model was already live, forecasting rain a day ahead. It looked done. Evaluating it properly is what showed it wasn’t.Continue reading on Medium »
Ask several models the same question, take a vote, and you get fewer independent opinions than you paid for. One formula says how many, and I checked it on six open models and 1,50...
Think about it like this: a survey organization uses a method M to get data D to give population estimates E which are used by clients to make actions A. The method M is crucial in...
A student asks the above question. My response: Anova is still important; it’s just been subsumed by hierarchical models. The link is to my 2005 paper, Analysis of variance: Why it...
This post is a follow-up to my previous posts on semi-parametric option pricing. A link to the study (accepted for presentation at the osQF 2026 conference) is provided at the end...
This post presents a function `mlReserve()` for machine-learning loss reserving on 'real-world' triangles, based on a fork of the 'ChainLadder' package. It includes two experiments...
Imagine I write a computer program to simulate a horse race. Then I write another computer program to predict which simulated horse will win. My second program does wonderfully. Pr...
Lets imagine a hypothetical scenario: two marketing analysts measure the same geo experiment. Same regions, same budget cut, same data set…Continue reading on Medium »
A single deep learning model trained across 528 stocks, built to forecast volatility.Continue reading on Medium »
Autoregressive rollout and uncertainty propagation. Second in a series on probabilistic forecasting for physical signals. The post Your Model's MSE Is Lying to You: Part II appeare...
John “not Towering Inferno” Williams points to this new research article by Valentin Portmann et al., which states: Climate models show considerable discrepancies in their future p...
A new framework called FLARE combines nonlinear machine learning flexibility with closed-form uncertainty estimates, statistical tests, and patient-level interaction analysis for c...
No text generation, no parsing, just typed answers with probabilities. Here is what it measured.Continue reading on Medium »
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