#Estimate

Andrew Wilson

AndrewWilson

Thread: I think something is going on here that merits a balanced & thoughtful perspective from all parties. It concerns the relative take up & therefore benefit to the economy

Oren Jacobson 🔯

Oren_Jacobson

Thread on right-wing twisting of CDC #COVID19 data:Over the weekend, right-wing skeptics have jumped on CDC data exploring deaths from the virus. Specifically, they’ve started arguing just 10k deaths have

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Models have their strength and weaknesses. It's valuable to understand both. While the @IHME_UW model has certain advantages over other approaches, I want to focus here on a disadvantage,

Simon Høiberg

SimonHoiberg

Three common misconceptions about freelancing.> You should never offer your work for free.> Don't use Upwork or Fiverr.> Use value-based pricing, not hourly or fixed pricing.Let me explain why these

Dan Quintana

dsquintana

I just released my first #Rstats package Here's a quick rundown on how you can use the {metameta} package to effortlessly calculate the statistical power of published meta-analyses to better

Penny-Wise

Barthez05138385

On 05/21/20 Caldas Gold $CGC.v announced it is acquiring the Juby Project in the Abtibi Greenstone Belt (Ontario) from $PAAS in what I estimate must be a $c55mm deal. As

Amira Hassan

itsAmira_H

Sigh. Okay, so we’re doing this? 1.) FBI hate crime data is notoriously a bad estimate of actual hate crimes because this data comes from local police enforcement who self

Robert J Frey

financequant

The PRC and WHO warned the world not to overreact. Many criticized governments for overreacting. Then the extent of the pandemic became clear. Governments were criticized by some for not

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

Update: Today, there were 768* hospital deaths announced for those testing postive for Covid-19 to bring the daily total up to 19,506A cautious estimate of the total number of UK

Stuart Palley

stuartpalley

1/n: Driving in remote+rural Montana yesterday, I came upon a serious rollover accident that had just happened. Was able to provide 1st aid supplies to off duty nurse/emt who stopped,

Andrew Dessler

AndrewDessler

Some thoughts on models in thread form:Climate models are based on physics. Their code describes the fundamental processes that we know drive atmospheric processes: radiative transfer, thermodynamics, the idea gas

BH

6pintsofkramer

@TheAuburner @AUChizad @NarrativeHater https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13319/face-masks-considerably-reduce-covid-19-cases-in-germany-a-synthetic-control-method-approachThis morning I came across this paper, which estimates a significan

Eva Vivalt

evavivalt

"How Much Can We Generalize From Impact Evaluations" is out at JEEA!Here's a thread with the key takeaways.... 1/https://twitter.com/JEEA_News/status/1318780863912529920 Impact evaluations have taken off in development economi

K.J. (semi recovery)

yampyrr

How I lost 50+ pounds — a quick Before and after (aug —> dec)https://twitter.com/yampyrr/status/1475296716714770436 ☆ Changing up my intakeThis is what helped me the most, because it keeps my

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

On Friday (Sept 18), #Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer told us that Case counts in Canada indicate “accelerated epidemic growth”. Is this true or is it ye olde #Coronaphobia? Let’s

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/There's been a resurgence in the myth that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, kills ~0.26% of the people it infects in the US.In other words: The infection fatality rate