Episodes 188
Avg. Duration 51m
Activity Highly Active
Since Oct 2019
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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About This Podcast

A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.

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S7E16 S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

Feb 24, 2026 42m

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...

Feb 10, 2026 44m

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

Feb 03, 2026 43m

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

Jan 20, 2026 43m

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

Dec 16, 2025 33m

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...

Dec 09, 2025 44m

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

Dec 02, 2025 43m

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

Nov 18, 2025 40m

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

Nov 11, 2025 44m

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...

Nov 04, 2025 39m

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

Oct 21, 2025 46m

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

Oct 14, 2025 38m

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...

Oct 07, 2025 34m

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…

S7E3 S7E03 Nonparametric Procedures

Sep 23, 2025 39m

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick explore the very cool yet often overlooked suite of non-parametric statistical tests. They talk about their strengths and weaknesses and how these might be…

S7E2 S7E02 Is NPR Liberally Biased? Maybe...

Sep 16, 2025 34m

In this week's special In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on the premise that National Public Radio is liberally biased, talking about what issues we would need to have…

S7E1 S7E01 The Seven Year Itch

Sep 09, 2025 37m

In this week's episode, the first of Season 7,  Greg and Patrick argue about whether the number seven is a propitious or an inauspicious omen for the new season. They then explore ways we can spice…

S6E21 S6E21 Quantitude: How the Sausage is Made

May 20, 2025 57m

In this week's episode, the last of Season 6,  Patrick and Greg pull back the curtain and reveal how the Quantitude sausage is actually made. Their motivation is to share their own joys and…

S6E20 S6E20 Dominance Analysis

Apr 29, 2025 42m

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick explore the extremely clever yet inexplicably underused method of dominance analysis which offers a set of techniques for determining the relative importance…

S6E19 S6E19 Misheard (Statistical) Lyrics: A Mixtape

Apr 15, 2025 45m

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have some serious fun with song lyrics they misunderstood at some point in their personal lives. They then use this as a thinly veiled excuse to explore some…

S6E18 S6E18 Count Variables

Apr 01, 2025 42m

In today’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about outcomes that are count variables: when you need to worry about them and what you can do about them within your analytical models. Along the way they…

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Quantitude has published 188 episodes since October 2019, covering topics in Courses, Education.

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Quantitude is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 51m.

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