Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
Iāve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign
The third edition of the Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology is out! The book includes 14 chapters that cover all aspects of designing, running, and analyzing the data from an ESM/EMA study. The book is freely available here: www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking...
Legacy Update
Let's not forget also economists and other economists š¤·āāļø
Accidentally color coordinated with my slides yesterday š¤
(The actual colors were blue and green, but thanks to the projector being old, my students got a good laugh)
Is this a joke? Yes.
Is it also an opportunity to demonstrate how extrapolations that incorporate uncertainty are far better behaved than those that don't? Absolutely.
I'm excited to announce a long overdue update to {tidyclust}! This release brings support for 3 new model types: DBSCAN, Gaussian mixture, and mean shift models.
We also now support parallel processing with {future} and {mirai}
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
#rstats #tidymodels #dataBS
Paul Musgrave
#statsmeme?
(Prompted by a conversation with a student who's double majoring in stats-econ and said that stats courses make more sense to him)
The 'Specialized data analysis capabilities' section rings too true - Claude is not built with co-analysis with a human in mind. It tends to build standalone scripts and functions with very low readability for the human analyst.
Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!
