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The winner's curse: shrinkage and cumulative impact

31 min read   ·   August 15, 2026

2026   ·   python,   experiments,   statistics,   data   science  

Raking weights with Python and weightpipe

25 min read   ·   August 13, 2026

2026   ·   python,   survey,   data   science  

Tools for power analysis with multiple comparisons

17 min read   ·   November 30, 2025

2025   ·   python,   experiments  

Extracting Zotero's notes

How to extract zotero notes to CSV / Excel file

2 min read   ·   July 6, 2021

2021   ·   zotero  

Oh, descriptive tables (R + Latex)!

How to create latex descriptive tables in R

8 min read   ·   May 12, 2020

2020   ·   R   latex  

Reading CDC mortality files using R

5 min read   ·   October 5, 2016

2016   ·   R   demography  

R package to compute statistics from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Decennial US Census

20 min read   ·   July 6, 2016

2016   ·   R   demography   data science  

Imputing scales using parcels of items as auxiliary variables

13 min read   ·   October 14, 2015

2015   ·   data science   R  

Simple R package to define sample sizes and MOEs

13 min read   ·   September 30, 2015

2015   ·   survey   R  

Functions for sample size and error

5 min read   ·   January 19, 2014

2014   ·   R   survey  

Cohort component projection

A simple example using R and matrices

12 min read   ·   July 2, 2013

2013   ·   demography  

Looking for variables in R

2 min read   ·   January 29, 2013

2013   ·   R  

My Facebook Network

5 min read   ·   October 4, 2012

2012   ·   R  

Life tables: Using survey data

9 min read   ·   September 5, 2012

2012   ·   demography  

Life tables: A super brief introduction

6 min read   ·   August 28, 2012

2012   ·   demography  

Raking weights with R

23 min read   ·   August 25, 2012

2012   ·   R   survey   data science