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This blog makes public the hallway conversations about social science statistical methods and analysis from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and related research groups. Expect to see posts on trends in methodological thought, questions and comments, paper and conference announcements, applied problems needing methodological solutions, and methodological techniques seeking applied problems. Also included are summaries of papers and comments from a popular weekly research workshop held here and billed as a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines. [read more...]

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15 November 2007

Artsy Statistics

From Andrew Gelman, I saw a link to an interesting "art exhibit" that's actually all about statistics and language. In some ways it reminded me of this other art exhibit that's actually all about statistics -- in this case, the meaning of some of the very large numbers we read about all the time, but find difficult to grasp on an intuitive level.

Both are worth checking out online. And if you live somewhere that you can visit either, lucky you!

Posted by Amy Perfors at 9:47 AM

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