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Alex Braunstein's Blog. From Karen to Katie: Using Baby Names to Study Cultural Evolution. July 10th, 2012 Author:. I’m happy to announce that my paper From Karen to Katie: Using Baby Names to Understand Cultural Evolution. Has been accepted for publication in the journal, Psychological Science. The article also received some press in Time magazine. This paper was a fun exercise in Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling. I’ll call it a zero inflated poisson regression, with all the usual priors. 8211; This book ...
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Alex Braunstein's Blog. Reading big files in R. April 12th, 2012 Author:. As the lone statistician in my workplace, I end up introducing many people to R. After the inevitable pirate jokes, my coworkers who program in real languages (C , Java, Python, PHP, etc.) ultimately end up complaining about R, which does a couple of things very well and a lot of things VERY poorly. Each has complained about data tables and reading data into R. October 27th, 2011 Author:. I’ll try to motivate this in as gener...
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Alex Braunstein's Blog. A Bayesian Variable Selection Approach to Major League Baseball Hitting Metrics. October 27th, 2011 Author:. I’m happy to announce my most recent publication “A Bayesian Variable Selection Approach to Major League Baseball Hitting Metrics”. Once we find the probability each player is a member of the two categories for each metric, we can tell if a metric is predictive if: a) most individuals are systematically different from the average and b) most of the metric’s variance i...
