Applied Inference

What does "Bayesian" mean?

Think of it as a simulation engine

Feb 22, 2022 • 

Thomas Vladeck

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January 2022

What is the normal distribution, anyway?

It's surprisingly weird, at least in high dimensions

Jan 4, 2022 • 

Thomas Vladeck

3

November 2021

Enterprise value vs. market cap

The importance of knowing what your statistic means

Nov 22, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

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1

October 2021

Friday open thread

Trying something a little bit different today: what subjects would you like to see me write about?

Oct 22, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

3

Prediction is all there is

The false dichotomy between prediction and inference

Oct 21, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

3

What math stuff should we teach the kids?

Certainly not chi-squared tests of association

Oct 19, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

2

Come work with me

Two hires at Recast: Infrastructure engineer and data scientist

Oct 14, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

A win for causal inference

But a miss as well; thoughts on the Nobel Prize in Economics

Oct 12, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

4

So, were all those multi-touch attribution models validated?

The natural experiment of the Facebook outage

Oct 5, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

1

No, ML is not "just statistics"

Debugging an oft-repeated bad take

Oct 4, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

1

August 2021

Going beyond probabilities

Decision-making in the face of deeper uncertainty

Aug 24, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

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Making better decisions with statistics

Three principles to keep in mind

Aug 17, 2021 • 

Thomas Vladeck

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