Quantitude the Podcast

The past, present, and future of SEM, with Ken Bollen, tomorrow…

Mentoring a research assistant

You kids today with your fancy “mugs”

A few weeks ago you’ve heard about nmax as the insurance policy for sample size planning on @quantitude.bsky.social

Today we’re excited to launch the nmax Shiny app. Sample size planning with nmax can now be done in just a few button clicks!

🚀 yifeng-quant.shinyapps.io/nmax/

Shhh. 😉

Looking sharp (or fuzzy), tomorrow…

Feel free to share your own heartfelt quantitative sentiments as we look ahead to Valentine’s Day…

Questioning our values, tomorrow…

Seeing our shadow tomorrow…

The only thing that comes to mind right now is the “ubiquitous cat’s cradle.” Look for work by Masyn (2008-2011) and Sher (2012). See if either that work, or work that has cited that work, points you in the right direction. Good luck!

As for sample size requirements, that sounds like an interesting methodological question worthy of deeper investigation. Let us know what you find, my friend. 😊

All of our statistical models make assumptions. When reasonable, they can facilitate better a better understanding of the world; when unreasonable they can inhibit that understanding. TVEM is a versatile way to loosen some assumptions, in hopes of a more accurate, nuanced approximation of reality. 

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We’ll wait…

As always, Jeff, thanks for sharing your valuable time with us. 😊

Time for TVEM, tomorrow…

When your postdoc does the data analysis and gets p=.049

So glad you found us, Lana! 😊

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We were… useful?

The gift that keeps on giving, tomorrow…

Thanks, Andrew! Feel free to throw in any references/info down below for all of us to continue learning. And happy holidays!

S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...

In this In The Wild episode, we turn our Quantitude loose on whether college admission essays should be used to make such high-stakes decisions, discussing what issues we would need addressed in order to answer that question.

The write stuff, tomorrow…

Thanks/Takk! We are so glad that Omid has been such a bad influence. 😉

17-year old Greg makes an appearance at the end of the episode. You have been warned. 😉

Grade Expectations, tomorrow…