I Stepped on a Hornet’s Nest: Econometricians vs Statisticians
I compared fixed-effects and mixed models in a COVID vaccine attitudes paper — and apparently committed econometric heresy. Here’s what the outrage taught me about endogeneity, culture clashes in statistics, and how two disciplines can look at the same data and see completely different worlds. The original article is at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art.... Last week's video is here: • How bad is it? Critiquing a Mixed Model Study To take my live mixed models class in January, see: https://simplistics.net/course/introd... For the self-guided Mixed Models course: https://simplistics.net/course/mixed/ For the self-guided visualization course: https://simplistics.net/course/random... For the self-guided simplistics course: https://simplistics.net/course/univar... For the self-guided R course: https://simplistics.net/course/introd... For other classes, see: https://simplistics.net/all-courses/ For consulting, see: https://simplistics.net/product/stati...

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