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Publication Name: Three-Toes Sloth

Brief description: Slow Takes from the Canopy (My Very Own Internet Tradition)

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Three-Toed Sloth wrote a new blog post titled Discovering Causal Structure from Observations (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)

How do we get our causal graph? Comparing rival DAGs by testing selected conditional independence relations (or dependencies). Equivalence classes of graphs. Causal arrows never go away no matter what you condition on ("no causation without association"). The crucial difference between common causes and common effects: conditioning on common causes makes their effects independent, conditioning on common effects makes their causes dependent. Identifying colliders, and using them to orient...
(56 days ago)

Three-Toed Sloth wrote a new blog post titled "Going Online: Should we do it? How? Why? What do we gain? What do we lose?" (Next Week, Instead of the Statistics Seminar)

Next week, instead of the regular seminar, the CMU statistics department will be hosting a panel on experience with online statistics education, including massive open online courses: "Going Online: Should we do it? How? Why? What do we gain? What do we lose?" Panelists: Emma Brunskill; Brian Caffo; Jeff Leek; Marsha Lovett; Roger Peng; Chad Schafer Moderators: Rebecca Nugent and Ryan Tibshirani Time and place: 3:30--5:00 pm on Monday, 29 April 2013, in Baker Hall A51 ("Giant Eagle...
(56 days ago)

Three-Toed Sloth wrote a new blog post titled Growth and Debt (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)

In which the relationship (if any) between GDP growth and government debt forms a bridge between causal inference and time series analysis. Assignment, debt.csv
(56 days ago)