I just joined, and I’m one of 37 people on the board, a mix of people from academia, industry, and government. If you google EPA science advisory board, you get sent to this page, which at first seems reasonable: Look … Continue reading → …

Three weeks ago we modeled vote choice with candidates C = {Left, Right, Other} as a multinomial logit: P[voter i chooses candidate c from C] = exp(f(X_ic)) / sum_c’ exp(f(X_ic’)) We saw this model implies independence from irrelevant alternatives (IIA): … Continue reading → …

I believe, as applied statisticians, we need to get our hands dirty and immerse ourselves in the applications we try to address. This post is mostly about medical ethics and the famous “first, do no harm” principle. It is also … Continue reading → …