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Season 4 Episode 6
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your…
3 years, 10 months ago
S4E05 Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis: A Conversation with Dan Bauer
Season 4 Episode 5
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg spend a wonderful, if not at times awkward, hour talking with Dan Bauer about the genesis, application, and f…
3 years, 10 months ago
S4E04 Partial Least Squares: Straight Outta Uppsala
Season 4 Episode 4
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about partial least squares, a technique that resembles structural equation modeling but with a lot of f…
3 years, 10 months ago
S4E03 Two-Stage Least Squares Strikes Back
Season 4 Episode 3
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the often neglected method of two-stage least squares; they take a walk down memory lane to explore i…
3 years, 11 months ago
S4E02 Underachievers, Overachievers, & Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Season 4 Episode 2
This week Patrick and Greg talk about maximum likelihood estimation: what it is, where it comes from, how it works, what it can do, and what it can't…
3 years, 11 months ago
S4E01 Ordinary Least Squares: Back Where It All Began
Season 4 Episode 1
In the opening episode to Season 4, Greg and Patrick delve into ordinary least squares estimation: where it came from, what it attempts to achieve, a…
3 years, 11 months ago
S3E28: The Challenges & Joys of Academia
Season 3 Episode 28
In this, their 100th episode and Season 3 finale, Greg and Patrick talk about the challenges and joys of a career in academia. Helping to ensure that…
4 years, 3 months ago
S3E27: Propensity Scores -- I Meant To Do That!
Season 3 Episode 27
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg get to hang out with Noah Greifer from the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University t…
4 years, 4 months ago
S3E26: The 411 on Information Theory
Season 3 Episode 26
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick talk about information theory: what it is, where it comes from, how it works, and how it can be used to make…
4 years, 4 months ago
S3E25: Fungible Parameter Estimates and Earthquake Waller
Season 3 Episode 25
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the sometimes terrifying issue of fungible weights in multiple regression and structural equation mod…
4 years, 4 months ago