social/data science; statistics; Duke Emeritus Prof; Elected Fellow, Society for Political Methodology https://xitter.cf/t.co/BkgJygI0Rx
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Michael Ward retweeted
A fast and efficient Model EM algorithm for mixtures, by @luca_scr : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #modelbasedclustering
"A fast and efficient Modal EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures" just appeared in Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Michael Ward retweeted
Doesn’t get any better than this view! 😍 Shout out to curiosityseattle for getting this breathtaking photo of campus and the city.
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Probabilistic subnational projections of adult populations when data are sparse, by @monjalexander & @LeontineAlkema : arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06121.pdf Fantastic work!
New preprint with @LeontineAlkema, proposing a Bayesian cohort component model for subnational populations in data-sparse settings: arxiv.org/abs/2102.06121
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Michael Ward retweeted
Historical violent event point data for sub-Saharan Africa now available for the pre-ACLED period, 1980-1996. colorado.edu/ibs/climateconf…
Terrific work.
Guest blog post on the needed boost to the Paris Agreement emissions commitments: sustainabilitycommunity.spri… A call for setting and monitoring shorter-term emissions goals, e.g. for 2022.
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Michael Ward retweeted
Yeah I think this is how you present a DAG for propensity scores. You need to show a lot of confounders to emphasize the curse of dimensionality. It collapses to the propensity score. The second DAG then implicitly shows the propensity score theorem (don’t need X with p hat).
Michael Ward retweeted
Here are all the 5,154 authors of the Higgs Boson discovery paper, the scientific article with the largest number of contributors.
blogs.prio.org/2021/01/an-au…. Andy was a friend to all.
Michael Ward retweeted
He's telling his former aides to forget their promise (and his) that they couldn't move from working for his administration to lobbying the government. Nah, just kidding, he says, go make buck in the swamp.
Michael Ward retweeted
Remember warnings of history. Forty years ago this fall, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was target of the kind of “inside attack” by military officers at a parade that AP is reporting fears about tonight.
Michael Ward retweeted
Sure, we said the Congress was "stealing" the election. And then we told the mob they should "stop the steal." And then the mob literally stopped Congress. But the idea that we had anything to do with this is just crazy talk.
Michael Ward retweeted
Airbnb is cancelling all Washington DC inauguration week bookings engt.co/3qfzKCj
Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. Article 1, Section 5. Hoiste them on their own petard.
