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A Negative Monte Carlo Result Is Still a Result
A simulation that refuses to confirm the theory you hoped to see is not a failed simulation. It may be the most useful part of the project. The difficult par...
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Silent Failures: When the Pipeline Changes and the Metric Moves
The average order value fell two percent overnight and three teams spent a day looking for the cause. Nothing about customers changed. The enrichment service...
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Visceral Fat: Measurement, Risk and the Claims Social Media Overstates
Visceral adipose tissue is clinically relevant, but much of the discussion around it confuses the biological quantity with the proxies used to estimate it. W...
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Staggered Rollouts and Difference-in-Differences: When Two-Way Fixed Effects Get It Wrong
A feature rolls out to regions in three waves. The panel regression with region and month fixed effects says the effect is 0.6. The true average effect on th...
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Reproducible Randomness Is More Than Calling set.seed()
A function can be reproducible and still behave badly. Calling set.seed() internally fixes its own Monte Carlo result but also replaces the caller's random-n...
Read articleManuel Pinto Coelho: Preventive Medicine, Scientific Overreach and the Weight of Evidence
Several public claims by Manuel Pinto Coelho begin with legitimate preventive medicine concerns and real biological mechanisms. The problem is the recurrent ...
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Propensity Scores: Matching, Weighting and the Estimator That Forgives One Mistake
Four estimators agree on the effect when both models are correct. Misspecify the outcome model and regression adjustment is off by 0.19; misspecify the treat...
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When Unlabelled Data Makes Semi-Supervised Learning Worse
More data is only useful when the assumptions connecting it to the labelled problem are reasonable. In a controlled experiment, self-training begins with a s...
Read articleSampling Uncertainty Can Dominate Representation Uncertainty
A better representation can recover structure that a linear summary cannot see, but that does not mean representation choice is immediately the main source o...
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Ratio Metrics in A/B Tests: The Session-Level Test Lies and the Delta Method Fixes It
An A/A test on conversion per session, with two thousand users per arm and about three sessions each, comes back significant one time in ten. Nothing changed...
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