Database of mound charging in baseball

2025-11-14

Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…

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Threats to democracy in the Congressional Record

2025-11-14
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As you might imagine, the word “democracy” has been mentioned in Congressional speeches…

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什么？EMMAX也能做全转录组关联分析（Transcriptome-wide Association Study，TWAS）

2025-11-14

全基因组关联分析从正向遗传学的角度出发，探究“基因型-表型”之间的关联，近年来在人类疾病和作物产量、品质以及抗逆等多方面的遗传机理研究中发挥重要作用。然而由于连锁不平衡（Linkage Disequilibrium，LD）的存在，我们很难直接从 …

The Democrats were lucky that the election was last week and not next week.

2025-11-14
The headline result from last week’s elections was: Democrats win across the board, none of the elections were close, they won the contested downballot races too, and the wins came across the Democrats’ ideological spectrum from center to left. If … Continue reading → …

How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?

2025-11-14
Here’s a story that appears on pages 309-310 of Active Statistics: Many years ago we taught a course in statistical consulting. The consulting was done by graduate students in pairs: each pair had open office hours once a week, clients … Continue reading → …

The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram

2025-11-14
This is Erik. Five years ago, I wrote a short paper about The significance filter, the winner’s curse and the need to shrink (with Eric Cator). The main purpose was to publish some mathematical results for later reference. To make … Continue reading → …

Recapping posit::conf 2025

2025-11-14

In September I had the opportunity to give a talk in person at
posit::conf in Atlanta, and now the video recording, plus
annotated slides and other goodies, are generally available.

Video on YouTube
Companion website on GitHub
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