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When I was a kid, I used to think that if someone was in a high up position that they must be really smart and competent. Now that I’m in my 40s, it seems like it’s almost the opposite. Most of the people I meet or read about who are in positions of leadership, I’m…
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I was trying to fit a mixed effects model and I waned to compare the model with the same fixed effects with and without a random intercept in an ANOVA. So I wasn’t sure how to do this using lmer from the lme4 package. So I googled it: It gave me the following answer with…
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Update: They swept the Marlins and are now on a 3 game winning streak and sit at 12-50. They are 25 games out of first place with 100 games to play. Update: They won last night and are now 10-50 as of noon on June 3. The Rockies are 9-50. That’s 50 losses in 59…
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Men’s Alabama over BYU – 72.1% Duke over Arizona – 90.3% Michigan St. over Ole Miss – 78.0% Tennessee over Kentucky – 76.3% Florida over Maryland – 90.3% Texas Tech over Arkansas – 62.4% Auburn over Michigan – 77.0% Houston over Michigan – 77.0% Women’s South Carolina over Maryland – 96.2% Duke over North Carolina…
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Women Iowa: 80.8% UConn: 100% Alabama: 88.5% West Vriginia: 86.4% NC State: 100% Oklahoma: 100% USC: 100% Oklahoma St: 72.8% Maryland: 91.3% Michigan St: 66.4% North Carolina: 100% California: 55.7% Illinois: 55.7% Florida St: 66.4% Texas: 100% LSU: 100% Men Purdue: 58.3% St. John’s: 82.4% Texas A&M: 50.0% Texas Tech: 62.4% Auburn: 78.3% Wisconsin: 51.0%…
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Yo. It’s been a while. Here are my win probabilities for the games today from my kaggle entry this year. Creighton: 40.6% Purdue: 75.7% Wisconsin: 92.4% Houston: 100% Auburn: 100% Clemson: 75.7% BYU: 59.36% Gonzaga: 72.8% Tennessee: 100% Missouri: 72.8% UCLA: 69.7% St. John’s: 94.3% Michigan: 59.4% Texas Tech: 89.999566% Kansas: 69.7% Texas A&M: 75.7%…
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2:54am Central Time: So, uh, what went wrong in that Selzer poll? 10:32pm Central Time: Just got back from my run. What are we doing America? What the fuck are we doing? The next four years are going to be so bad. So much worse than you can even imagine. It’s just. so. stupid. Good…
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I’m a guy on the internet. So naturally I have uninformed opinions. And because this is the internet, I’d like to share them with everyone because….well, what’s the point of the internet if I can’t post uninformed opinions? So here I go. Here’s what I’ve been looking at recently. I took the polls that fivethirtyeight…
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Just a quick note unrelated to statistics. Tony Hinchcliffe recently made a “joke” about Puerto Rico that might sway the 2024 election. And People are really mad. Hinchcliffe is being universally trashed (see what I did there) over this. But he has an unlikely defender: Jon Stewart. But Jon Stewart is wrong. Choosing to think…
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