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Season 7 Episode 15
In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode
Season 7 Episode 14
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that r…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models
Season 7 Episode 13
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alter…
7 months, 1 week ago
S7E12 The Gift of Regifting
Season 7 Episode 12
This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they fran…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...
Season 7 Episode 11
In this In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on college admission essays, in particular whether or not they should be us…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
S7E10 A Report Card on GPAs
Season 7 Episode 10
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have fun exploring the questionably valid but always high stakes role of the grade point average, of GPA. The…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
S7E09 Modeling Categorical Change with Latent Transition Analysis
Season 7 Episode 9
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about latent transition analysis, which embeds latent class analysis within a longitudinal context, allo…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
S7E08 Bootstrapping
Season 7 Episode 8
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. They start with inferential testing using business as u…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
S7E07 Is the SAT Biased and Should be Banned? Maybe...
Season 7 Episode 7
In this In The Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on the ever-present SAT, in particular the premise that it is biased and sh…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
S7E06 Non-Academic Jobs: A Conversation with Jeremy Miles
Season 7 Episode 6
In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg have a lovely conversation with Jeremy Miles, a quantitative methodologist who has worked in both academic a…
10 months, 1 week ago