Quantitude
A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.
Podcasting since 2019 • 189 episodes
Quantitude
Latest Episodes
S7E17 Elements of Structural Equation Models with Ken Bollen
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk with Ken Bollen who is a Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to exploring topics including home made rockets, sitars, and Jimi Hendri...
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Season 7
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Episode 17
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45:25
S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal inferences when using quasi-experimental data. Along...
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Season 7
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Episode 16
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42:01
S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe...
In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at all, and what issues we would need to have addressed in order for...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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44:45
S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that reminds us how little we actually know when sample size planning, and then offers a concrete, ca...
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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43:31
S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alternative to the more restrictive time-varying covariate model. Along the way they also mention No...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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43:31