Quantitude
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.
Episodes
184 episodes
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 sponsors from prior episodes. Along the way t...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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33:54
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 discuss what issues would need to be a...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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44:27
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 be assigned, what they may or may not actuall...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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43:37
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, patterns of individual change in latent class ...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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40:39
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 problems, and explore where bootstrapping does and,...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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44:45
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 would need to be addressed in order t...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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39:45
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 extensive experiences to describe what an industr...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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46:44
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 talk. Along the way they also mention the changin...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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38:36
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 would raise and what issues they would need to...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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34:20
S7E03 Nonparametric Procedures
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 profitably used in practice. Along the way they...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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39:26
S7E02 Is NPR Liberally Biased? Maybe...
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 addressed in order for us to be able to eval...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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34:39
S7E01 The Seven Year Itch
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 up our relationship in hopes of avoiding ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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37:01
S6E21 Quantitude: How the Sausage is Made
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 challenges in making a podcast in the hope that o...
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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57:21
S6E20 Dominance Analysis
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 of predictors in a regression model. Along the...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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42:17
S6E19 Misheard (Statistical) Lyrics: A Mixtape
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 very basic statistical things that they have a...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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45:32
S6E18 Count Variables
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 also mention: Bela Lugosi, Vlad the Impaler, Pa...
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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42:24
S6E17 Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick explore both the challenges and the opportunities of age-period-cohort analysis when trying to understand the complexities of human behavior over time. Along the way they also discuss bachelor night, Dave...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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41:34
S6E16 Correspondence Analysis
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick shine a flashlight on correspondence analysis and find that this is an extraordinarily cool yet often neglected method similar to factor analysis but applied to nominal contingency tables. Along the way t...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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46:41
S6E15 Loglinear Models: Someone Should Have Told You
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about loglinear models as a clever method to deconstruct the potential dependencies among two or more categorical variables. Along the way, they also discuss Children of the Corn, Mr. Magoo glasses, ...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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40:08
S6E14 Factor Rotation: But is it Art?
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick invoke the very personal interpretation of modern art as a framework for thinking about the exceedingly cool topic of rotation in exploratory factor analysis. Along the way they also discuss Venice Beach,...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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42:57
S6E13 Group Codes in GLM: Dummy and Dummier
In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about group coding approaches, like dummy variables and effect code variables, for helping to analyze group differences within the larger general linear model. Along they way they also discuss hackin...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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45:47
S6E12 Suppression Unrepressed
In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the fascinating world of suppressor variables which have the nearly magical, yet fully understandable, distinction of being unrelated to the dependent variable yet serving to enhance the predictiv...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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37:44
S6E11 A Brief Holiday Message...
This week we just want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, and we look forward to sharing more quant fun in the new year. Please take care everyone!
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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8:07
S6E10 Instrumental Variables (Dad)Rock!
In today’s episode, Greg and Patrick talk about instrumental variables: what they are, how they help to make causal claims, and the many assumptions and challenges associated with them. Along the way they also mention: Festival of Side Dishes, ...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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45:03
S6E09 Masterpiece Theatre: Skrondal & Laake (2001)
This week Patrick and Greg talk about one of Patrick's favorite papers, which is a masterpiece not only in terms of its quantitative contribution in understanding the differential role of factor scores, but also as a model of clear and concise ...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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39:59