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 • 187 episodes
Quantitude
Latest Episodes
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
S7E12 The Gift of Regifting
This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they frantically regift one another some of their favorite sponsors from prior episodes. Along the way t...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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33:54
S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...
In this In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on college admission essays, in particular whether or not they should be used to make such high-stakes decisions, and they discuss what issues would need to be a...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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44:27