S8E03 Control Yourself: A Conversation With Paul Allison
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick are honored to have a discussion with Paul Allison who is a sociologist and a titan in the field of...
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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 withou...
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20 of 199 episodesS8E02 Lost in Standardization
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a loosely organized discussion about metrics, including the pros and cons of raw versus standar...
S8E01 The True Crimes of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
In this first episode of Season 8, Greg and Patrick decide it is deeply unfair that the podcast has not grown popular enough for them to buy...
S7E24 The Seven Questions of Quantitude (Plus or Minus Two)
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick revisit their earlier promise of creating seven questions that will help you use your Quantitude to...
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 t...
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...
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 dedicat...
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 method...
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. Th...
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...
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...
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 p...
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 ran...
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 a...
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-pa...
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 someth...
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 sho...
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 averag...
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...
S7E08 Bootstrapping
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. They start with inferential testing using...