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Browsing Posts published in October, 2006

Here’s to the Internet: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Productivity at elite universities We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with [...]

Have to have a closer look at it sometime (freshen up those statistic lessons ) Simpsons paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Technorati Tags: paradox, statistics

This is quite interesting, though not astounding. So it seems that everybody, especially in academia, is overworked. There is a simple solution in the dao de jing, which is also given in the Bhagavad Gita, by the way: Do what you heed important, but do not strive for the fruits of your work. In other [...]