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Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran
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S7E23 S7E23 Quantitude Philosopher of Science Trading Cards
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about creating collectible trading cards for some of our favorite philosophers of science and the impact each has had on how we think about the practice…
S7E22 S7E22 Is College Worth It? Maybe...
In this In the Wild episode, Patrick and Greg conclude their unexpected cluster of college-themed conversations by turning their Quantitude loose on the ultimate question: is college worth it. In…
S7E21 S7E21 Qualitative Research with Emily Namey
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a wonderful time talking about qualitative research methods with Emily Namey. Emily has dedicated her entire career to qualitative research and she helps…
S7E20 S7E20 Modeling Co-Development Over Time
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick follow-up their previous discussion of time-varying covariates with a conversation about methods for modeling the simultaneous development in two or more…
S7E19 S7E19 Growth Modeling With Time-Varying Covariates
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick have great fun talking about the inclusion of time-varying covariates within growth models. They differentiate time invariant from time varying predictors,…
S7E18 S7E18 St. Patrick's Day Pub Quiz
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick magically find themselves at trivia night in the Rusty Mackerel pub in Teelin, Ireland, where a secret celebrity trivia master puts them on the spot to test…
S7E17 S7E17 Elements of Structural Equation Models with Ken Bollen
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk with Ken Bollen who is a Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to exploring topics…
S7E16 S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs
In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal…
S7E15 S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe...
In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at all, and what issues we would…
S7E14 S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that reminds us how little we actually know when sample…
S7E13 S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alternative to the more restrictive time-varying…
S7E12 S7E12 The Gift of Regifting
This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they frantically regift one another some of their favorite…
S7E11 S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...
In this In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on college admission essays, in particular whether or not they should be used to make such high-stakes decisions, and they…
S7E10 S7E10 A Report Card on GPAs
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have fun exploring the questionably valid but always high stakes role of the grade point average, of GPA. They consider the different ways in which grades can…
S7E9 S7E09 Modeling Categorical Change with Latent Transition Analysis
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about latent transition analysis, which embeds latent class analysis within a longitudinal context, allowing us to explore, as well as to formally test,…
S7E8 S7E08 Bootstrapping
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. They start with inferential testing using business as usual, describe where that quickly runs into…
S7E7 S7E07 Is the SAT Biased and Should be Banned? Maybe...
In this In The Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on the ever-present SAT, in particular the premise that it is biased and should be banned. They also talk about what issues…
S7E6 S7E06 Non-Academic Jobs: A Conversation with Jeremy Miles
In this week's episode, Patrick and Greg have a lovely conversation with Jeremy Miles, a quantitative methodologist who has worked in both academic and industry settings. Jeremy draws on his own…
S7E5 S7E05 The Academic Job Talk
In this week's episode, as we head into the academic job season, Patrick and Greg offer some well-meaning advice about one of the most important aspects of an on-site interview, the academic job…
S7E4 S7E04 Does Birth Order Matter? Maybe...
In this week's In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on the premise that birth order has a causal impact on the very person who you are. They discuss what questions they…
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Quantitude has published 195 episodes since October 2019, covering topics in Courses, Education.
Quantitude is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 51m.
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