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Back to SearchS3E14: Patrick & Greg's New Year's Balls Drop
Season 3 Episode 14
Patrick and Greg, perched in a glass booth high above New York's Times Square, ring in 2022 with the help of some friends by counting down quantitati…
4 years, 8 months ago
S3E13: Actor-Partner Interdependence Models
Season 3 Episode 13
In today's episode, Greg and Patrick talk about the rich array of models for testing hypotheses about mutual influences between people within a dyadi…
4 years, 8 months ago
S3E12: The History of Measurement: A Conversation with Derek Briggs
Season 3 Episode 12
Patrick and Greg have an in-depth conversation with Derek Briggs, from the University of Colorado, about his new book exploring the fascinating and a…
4 years, 9 months ago
S3E11: The Cons and the Cons of Median Splits
Season 3 Episode 11
Greg and Patrick talk about median splits and other ways that continuous variables might be categorized to simplify analyses, and the often very high…
4 years, 9 months ago
S3E10: Observation and Exploration
Season 3 Episode 10
Patrick and Greg discuss the often forgotten importance of observation and exploration for the purpose of suggesting patterns and forming hypotheses,…
4 years, 9 months ago
S3E09: Semi-Partially Clarifying Measures of Association in Regression
Season 3 Episode 9
Patrick and Greg answer a mailbag question about some foundational principles of regression and correlation, specifically the differences among corre…
4 years, 9 months ago
S3E08: Statistical Degrees of Freedom... An Intimate Stranger
Season 3 Episode 8
In today's episode Patrick and Greg talk about statistical degrees of freedom: what they represent, how they are computed, and the importance they pl…
4 years, 10 months ago
S3E07: In Defense of Researcher Degrees of Freedom
Season 3 Episode 7
In this episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the many places where researchers make decisions throughout the research process, and they weigh the pros a…
4 years, 10 months ago
S3E06: Item Parcels: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!
Season 3 Episode 6
In today's episode Patrick & Greg talk about the use of item parcels in latent variable modeling: what they are, what might motivate you to use them,…
4 years, 10 months ago
S3E05: Pop Quiz 3: Ethan's Revenge
Season 3 Episode 5
What starts as a friendly check-in with our intern Ethan McCormick in the Netherlands turns into Ethan's Pop Quiz Revenge around the themes of statis…
4 years, 10 months ago