The denominator changes the story
Why counts and population rates can produce different rankings, and what neither measure can establish alone.
Note · 2026
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What changes when evidence meets criteria, priors, persuasion, or a rating scale?
Why counts and population rates can produce different rankings, and what neither measure can establish alone.
Note · 2026
A worked example showing how decision thresholds change responses without changing fixed discriminability.
Note · 2026
Publication-ready visualizations for ordinal cumulative models, framed in signal detection theory terms.
Project · 2026
A Bayesian view of polling and the uncertainty around a US presidential election.
Article · 2025
Mixed-effects linear models and generalized linear models, continued from the Bayesian modeling series.
Article · 2024
An introduction to Bayesian modeling for psychologists, with an emphasis on updating statistical skills.
Article · 2024
When different interpretations of probability disagree about what p-values mean.
Article · 2023