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Visualizing anti-trans legislation using RStudio

On: January 1, 2025

In: 2025, Bianca Thompson, Math and Social Sciences, Probability and Statistics

Tagged: legislation, lgbtq+ rights, political science, R, statistics, textual analysis

Can I use these text analyses to understand the content of the bill, without reading 400 pages? Visualizing anti-trans legislation using RStudio Bianca Thompson Westminster University While I was working with Kenan İnce on their open source active learning book, Quantitative Reasoning for Social Justice, we discussed their dream chapterRead More →

Is this $p$-hacking?

By: Ursula Whitcher

On: March 1, 2024

In: 2024, Probability and Statistics, Sara Stoudt

Tagged: p-hacking, statistics

With: 0 Comments

The number of comparisons is going to escalate quickly. If we have four flavors of ice cream, we go from Scenario 1 showing three significant variables in its model outputs to the rest of the scenarios only reporting one... Is this $p$-hacking? If you have to ask, it probably is.Read More →