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Biased and Inefficient

I’m a statistical researcher in Auckland.

  • By Thomas Lumley
  • Based in New Zealand
  • Roughly three posts per month
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Dec 2022 3
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Mar 2023 4
Apr 2023 1
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Jun 2023 1
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Dec 2023 4
Jan 2024 3
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Apr 2024 6
May 2024 2
Jun 2024 4
Jul 2024 1

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Most recent posts

A Bayesian t-test, again
The term “t-test” is a bit of a troll here, since I don’t mean either a test or the Normal-based inference developed by Gossett. I’m interested in two-sample comparisons of means, effectively non-parametric in moderate …
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Stage vs phase
When two-phase study designs started being used in epidemiology and biostatistics there was a period of conflict. Survey statisticians insisted on the term “two-phase” and biostatisticians (following survey textbooks in some cases) wanted to call …
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Estimator vs estimate
In sandwich variance estimators, the middle of the sandwich1 is the variance of the estimating function. If we have independent observations and estimate by solving \[\sum_i U_i(\theta)=0\] we want \(\mathrm{var}[\sum_i U_i(\theta)]\), which we estimate by …
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