Note: This is a work-in-progress, but I figured: “Why not work in the open?”. If you have any thoughts, or feedback, I would of course appreciate that! Throughout my PhD, I have been primarily concerned with methodological developments related to measurem Read more...

Note: This is a work-in-progress, but I figured: “Why not work in the open?”. If you have any thoughts, or feedback, I would of course appreciate that! It is my belief that learning occurs not through the actions of a teacher, but through the actions of s Read more...

This term I had the pleasure of teaching an introductory statistics course at the University of Waterloo. In preparing to run the course I came to realize (and this is by no means a unique realization) that there is a lot of incorrect (or misleading) info Read more...

I am in the process of reading Causal Inference by Hernan and Robins, and one idea has come up a handful of times which strikes me as important - and underdiscussed in a standard statistical curriculum (read: my statistical curriculum). The basic premise Read more...

Conditioning for Causality Simpson’s Paradox There is a well known statistical “paradox” Simpson’s Paradox, which discusses the ability for a trend observed in your data to reverse when groups of interest are aggregated. The basic idea is often illustrate Read more...

Correlation, Causation, and Useless Platitudes Any student who has taken Statistics 101 can tell you (and will tell you) that “Correlation does not imply causation.” This student is correct - correlation does not imply causation. You need only look at the Read more...