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Back to SearchS6E06 Pop Quiz: Acronyms
Season 6 Episode 6
In this week's episode Greg tries to ambush Patrick by bringing back the popular feature Pop Quiz, this time with a statistical acronym theme, only t…
1 year, 10 months ago
S6E05 Cattell's Data Box
Season 6 Episode 5
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg discuss Cattell's data box and try to better understand what it is, what it is not, and how we might make use…
1 year, 10 months ago
S6E04 Person-Centered vs. Variable-Centered Analysis
Season 6 Episode 4
In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg talk about person-centered methods versus variable-centered methods with the punch line being that the histo…
1 year, 10 months ago
S6E03 Multiple Choice Is ______
Season 6 Episode 3
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick explore the surprisingly tricky topic of multiple choice items: how to write them, how not to write them, and…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6E02 Judging Inter-Rater Reliability
Season 6 Episode 2
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about different ways of assessing inter-rater agreement and reliability among two or more raters and the…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6E01 Growth as a Predictor? Back to School with Ethan McCormick
Season 6 Episode 1
In this week's episode, the first of Season 6, Greg and Patrick visit with Dr. Ethan McCormick, an Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and …
1 year, 11 months ago
S5E25 Is Being a Professor the Right Fit for Me?
Season 5 Episode 25
In this week’s episode, our 150th and the last of season 5, Greg and Patrick hear from five people at different stages of their academic journey, who…
2 years, 3 months ago
S5E24 Zombie Wheel of Distributions
Season 5 Episode 24
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg somehow manage to tie together pretending to be sick with game shows with zombies with conspiracy boards to e…
2 years, 3 months ago
S5E23 A Rosetta Stone for DAGs and SEM
Season 5 Episode 23
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about both structural equation modeling and directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs, where they are similar and…
2 years, 4 months ago
S5E22 Survival Analysis in the Social Sciences: It's About Time
Season 5 Episode 22
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool topic of survival analysis, which is a set of techniques that allows for powerful…
2 years, 4 months ago