Episodes

  • S6E08 The Statenfreude of Generalized Estimating Equations
    Nov 19 2024

    In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg discuss the benefits and limitations of generalized estimating equations as an approach to dealing with data that violate the assumption of independence. Along the way they also mention: goat rodeos, haunted houses, jump scares, liberos, Haikyu!!, Whoa Ace!, dadenfreude, Otto, cutting the baguette, this just in, American Idiot, bing bong bing bong, my dad drinks Pepsi, and fine print.

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    43 mins
  • S6E07 Structural After Measurement and the Muffin of Truth
    Nov 5 2024

    In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about the advantages of recent structural after measurement work, allowing us to break apart traditional structural equation models to analyze the measurement and structural portions separately. Along the way they also discuss the baseball playoffs, fire pit face plants, the gluten cabinet, pumpkin inadequacy, a soupçon of ginger, free range muffins, fancy pants souffles, drunken whac-a-mole, flexing lats, and blue on black.

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    42 mins
  • S6E06 Pop Quiz: Acronyms
    Oct 22 2024

    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 to pretty much get crushed by Patrick in the end. Along they way they also discuss: Wow That's Fantastic, QR codes and octogenarians, Questionable Rectum, catharsis, grassy knolls, petards, Sean ringtones, pity minutes, apologies to Roy Levy, bad clock management, asteroid Roombas, pitching beach balls, statistical sock puppets, and the DIC talk.

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    41 mins
  • S6E05 Cattell's Data Box
    Oct 15 2024

    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 of this in practice. Along the way they also discuss illegal knives, baseball cards, the Cubs and the Mariners, bicentennial quarters, how to load a dishwasher, horrible people, anal retentive friends, Flat Stanley, Dungeons & Dragons, pricing yourself out of business, needing 20 friends, being super pedantic, The Full Monty, stereograms, and magical statistical accessories.

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    40 mins
  • S6E04 Person-Centered vs. Variable-Centered Analysis
    Oct 8 2024

    In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg talk about person-centered methods versus variable-centered methods with the punch line being that the historically contentious distinction between these two is unnecessary, unhelpful, and even counter-productive. Along the way they also mention lost luggage, Sabena Air t-shirts, the Inquisition, honey badger Americans, Fredrik Backman, punch lines, a frayed knot, the Keanu Reeves of statistics, new bosses and old bosses, non sequiturs, fffsssshhhhh, ergodicity, complimentary eye patches, and Atrick.

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    46 mins
  • S6E03 Multiple Choice Is ______
    Sep 24 2024

    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 giving a well written test the respect it deserves. Along the way they also discuss recognizing emotions, laying down 50 feet of rubber, glass animals, rewriting your kid's test, self-righteousness, Dora the Explorer, the Magna Carta, accidentally becoming a better teacher, dumpster diving, a special place in hell, Trivial Pursuit as blood sport, world geography, being a horrible student, and the terror of having Greg as a dental assistant.

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    39 mins
  • S6E02 Judging Inter-Rater Reliability
    Sep 17 2024

    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 importance of doing so. Along the way they also discuss the summer Olympics, underdogs, monologue face-offs, Quincy Wilson, Boomers, the Soviet judge, biopsy subjectivity, the secret to college admissions reliability, skipping conference dinners, ripping a dive, Patrick's silver medal, the trifactor model, the Good Cop parent, temper tantrums, and intellectual Sugar Daddies.

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    44 mins
  • S6E01 Growth as a Predictor? Back to School with Ethan McCormick
    Sep 10 2024

    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 Data Science in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. After catching up on Ethan's international adventures they discuss his recent work on using growth factors as predictors of distal outcomes and how pretty much everything he expected to find came out exactly the opposite. Along the way they also discuss chain sawing family memories, the 31st 1st day of school, Irish goodbyes, barn doors, ridiculous footnotes, blatant plagiarism, done and dusted, throwing R code at your advisor, landing a triple axel, umlauts, being proudly uneducated, hiding in the bathroom, and in fairness to us.

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    50 mins