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I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer. I say this both based upon years of experience working

I work primarily with nested data. One example is in experiments, with students nested in schools. Another is meta-analysis, with effect sizes nested in studies. In this thread, I’ll focus

Tweetorial on going from regression to estimating causal effects with machine learning.I get a lot of questions from students regarding how to think about this *conceptually*, so this is a

Tomorrow I'm giving a lecture to residents and fellows at St. Chris Children's Hospital about collaborating with a statistician. When I was asked to do this, I was invited to

Gather around so we can talk briefly about assessing your MCMC samples. As you may know, MCMC sampling is often used in Bayesian statistics. However, you can use MCMC to

Let's do a thread on generalized linear mixed models. I have a meeting at 1, so I'll hammer out everything I can in the next 29 minutes! (1/) I like

Let's extend the linear model (LM) in the directio of the GLM first. If you loosen up the normality assumption to instead allow Poisson, binomial, etc (members of the "exponential

Ready or not, here comes a thread on making R packages. I want to tweet about this on the Women in Stat account because women are underrepresented as R package

Should we start with mentors and support systems? A single mentor won't cut it. You'll have questions your mentor can't answer. Your mentor will have times when they're busy/stressed. I

IS A (BIO)STAT PHD RIGHT FOR ME?Prospective students ask me this several times a year. It’s a tough one. I am super enthusiastic about stat and data science careers. It’s

SURVIVING THE ACADEMIC JOB INTERVIEW FOR NERDS!Here are my thoughts on how the nerdy and introverted can deal with a situation that demands a lot of social interaction – the

GOOD MORNING, NERDS, LET’S TALK ABOUT NETWORKING!As a nerd and off-the-scale introvert the idea of networking used to keep me up at night. Randomly walking up to strangers at a