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You saw it here first! An example of information spreading through the news media
Seth Roberts’s work on self-experimentation is the subject of the Freakonomics column in this Sunday’s New York Times. Regular readers of this blog will recall discussions of Seth’s work here and here. Also a related study here. The publicizing of Seth’s work also is an interesting example of information transmission. Seth published a paper in […]
Postdoctoral position available
Postdoctoral research opportunity: Columbia University, Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics Supervisors: Ezra Susser (epidemiology) and Andrew Gelman (statistics) We have a NIH-funded postdoctoral position (1 or 2 years) available for what is essentially statistical research as applied to some important problems in psychiatric epidemiology. One project which we are working is the Jerusalem Perinatal Study […]
Blog, take two
I’m sure most of you noticed that our blog disappeared for a while last week. Some f&*^ing kid in Michigan of all places hacked into my stat.columbia.edu account through the Wiki. I think the Wiki security problems are now fixed, and have also learned the hard way not to rely on anyone else to back […]