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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 23h

A fantastic new issue of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS that focuses on the production and use of gender statistics:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/sjib/41/...

The U.S. government may refuse to think that this is important or worthy of funding, but high-quality research in this area continues.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 2d

Jahmyr Gibbs is an absolute beast. My goodness. 💪

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 2d

This was beyond brutal. Gotta hope there is improvement this series…

Baycurrent Classic Insider Meghan McCain @hotsprotstakes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry what, 75% called strike accuracy?! That’s unbelievably bad for any game, let alone the playoffs.

Umpire Scorecards @umpscorecard.bsky.social · 2d

#Postseason
Umpire: Alex Tosi
Final in 11: Tigers 3, Mariners 2
#RepDetroit // #TridentsUp
#DETvsSEA // #SEAvsDET

More stats for this ump 👇
https://umpscorecards.com/data/single-umpire/Alex%20Tosi

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 3d

Oh man what a game. The Tigers really grinded that out. Props.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 3d

Tigers-Mariners is just maximum intensity right now 😐

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 5d

Utter abominations of at-bats by Perez and Torkelson. The Tigers are just so frustrating to watch right now.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 6d

Utterly pathetic and unacceptable not to score in that situation. Win this game or not.

Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 7d

Yet more evidence against the highly questionable idea of silicon sampling.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 7d

Finally an iota of sanity.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7d

The White House has withdrawn its nomination of a woefully unqualified partisan hack — EJ Antoni — to be BLS Commissioner, and sometimes the system actually works.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.

www.cnn.com

Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 7d

Wait…you mean the inability of the Tigers to hit anything wasn’t automatically cured by the magic “It’s The Playoffs Now!” switch? Weird. 🙄

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 7d

Join us TODAY at 1:00 for @bradytwest.bsky.social and @jameswagner254.bsky.social : Developing a Modern and Standardized Data Quality Profile for SRC Surveys
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1430BD ISR-Thompson
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Meeting ID: 913 3699 9447
Passcode: 878303

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John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier this month @maggielevenstein.bsky.social and I spoke to BBC's More or Less about what is happening with US government data. Thanks to @timharford.ft.com for having us! #databs #statistics #episky

Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 10d

The Case of the Missing US Data: In early February, something strange started happening across US government websites. Decades of data began disappearing. We speak to Maggie Levinstein and @johnkubale.bsky.social to find out why, and why it matters.
(@timharford.ft.com)
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

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LongitudinalAnalysis.com @longdata.bsky.social · 9d

🔍 Curious about path analysis and mediation analysis?
I just published a beginner-friendly guide with diagrams + R code examples.

👉 Learn how to separate direct, indirect, and total effects.

Read here: longitudinalanalysis.com/introduction... @usociety.bsky.social @esrasurvey.bsky.social

Introduction to Path and Mediation Analysis with R - Longitudinal Analysis

Introduction to path analysis and mediation analysis in R. Estimate direct, indirect, and total effects with diagrams, examples, and code.

longitudinalanalysis.com

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 8d

I think that everyone on this thread would benefit from reading this article:

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The central question is whether the weights are informative about the model parameters that you are trying to estimate.

Are Survey Weights Needed? A Review of Diagnostic Tests in Regression Analysis | Annual Reviews

Researchers apply sampling weights to take account of unequal sample selection probabilities and to frame coverage errors and nonresponses. If researchers do not weight when appropriate, they risk hav...

www.annualreviews.org

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 8d

An excellent piece, especially for those of you who may not work with survey weights every day.

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 10d

A few words on survey weights, why I'm embarrassed to have forgotten to take them into account in the past, and how I got lucky because I personally didn't get burned. Not a mistake I intend to repeat in the future

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Some notes on survey weights – Notes from a data witch

An area of statistics in which the author is not strong, and really needs to up her game

blog.djnavarro.net

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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 9d

Join "Latent Transition Analysis" on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 w/ Bethany Bray and Stephanie Lanza. Extend your latent class and latent profile analyses (LCA & LPA) skills to longitudinal data with LTA and learn how to examine how subgroup memberships change over time.

Latent Transition Analysis | Online Training | Statistical Horizons

This online course with Stephanie Lanza, Ph.D. & Bethany Bray, Ph.D., addresses research questions using latent transition analysis (LTA) applied to longitudinal panel data.

statisticalhorizons.com

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 11d

Happy to report that our study on "Data Donation as a Method to Measure Physical Activity in Older Adults" was just published in JMIR. www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69799 We asked people aged 50+ in the Dutch #LISS panel to donate physical activity (PA) data from their smartphones. We found that...

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 11d

I gave a talk at ISR yesterday on declining response rates in surveys, and why we should not automatically assume that this means our survey estimates will be subject to nonresponse bias. Here is the recording for anyone interested! Thanks again to ISR Insights. 🙏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSmD...

Moving Beyond Response Rates to Understand Nonresponse Bias with Brady West

YouTube video by UMISR

www.youtube.com

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 13d

Join us Tuesday, September 30 at 1:00 for @bradytwest.bsky.social and @jameswagner254.bsky.social : Developing a Modern and Standardized Data Quality Profile for SRC Surveys
More information: myumi.ch/qZPQe
1430BD ISR-Thompson
umich.zoom.us/j/91336999447
Meeting ID: 913 3699 9447
Passcode: 878303

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Developing a Modern and Standardized Data Quality Profile for SRC Surveys | Happening @ Michigan

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 14d

As good as the Lions were last night, the Tigers have been that bad or worse for a month straight. This team-wide collapse has been nothing short of astonishing.