Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
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climate change
- Steve Easterbrook's excellent climate blog: See his "The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet?" for example
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- David Appell's early climate science
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks
- Climate Change: A health emergency … New England Journal of Medicine
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
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Jan Galkowski
Category Archives: probit regression
A quick note on modeling operational risk from count data
The blog statcompute recently featured a proposal encouraging the use of ordinal models for difficult risk regressions involving count data. This is actually a second installment of a two-part post on this problem, the first dealing with flexibility in count … Continue reading
Posted in American Statistical Association, Bayesian, Bayesian computational methods, count data regression, dichotomising continuous variables, dynamic generalized linear models, Frank Harrell, Frequentist, Generalize Additive Models, generalized linear mixed models, generalized linear models, GLMMs, GLMs, John Kruschke, maximum likelihood, model comparison, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, multivariate statistics, nonlinear, numerical software, numerics, premature categorization, probit regression, statistical regression, statistics
Tagged dichotomising continuous variables, dichotomizing continuous variables, premature categorization, splines
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