Peter Ellis
Director, Statistics for Development Division, at the Pacific Community. Posts are personal views, and most likely to be about data and #rstats, maybe with bits of history, social science and philosophy thrown in. Blog is at https://freerangestats.info/.
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- Reposted by Peter EllisSo much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered. I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.
- Always love a blog on the late bronze age collapse.
- This week on the blog! By request of the ACOUP Senate (that is, patrons on Patreon at the patres et matres conscripti level), a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a collapse even more severe than the fall of the Roman Empire in the west! acoup.blog/2026/01/30/c...
- Even putting politics aside, this does sound like one of the worst films of significant budget ever. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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- Reposted by Peter Ellis#rstats ANNOUNCE: The ASA John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award to Harriet Mason (Monash Univ) For ggdibbler, an R graphics (ggplot2 add-on) package that enables rich visualization of uncertainty across raster, contour, stack, and spatial plots.
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- Reposted by Peter EllisSorry I'm a few years late to the party, but I'm here finally! :) yihui.org/en/2026/01/h... Thank you all so much for your generous support over the past two years!
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- Basically sound ratings of the Tintin albums. I am more positive on a few but broadly these reviews are very sensible.
- Reposted by Peter Ellis"You're on the Island of Conclusions. Make yourself at home. You're apt to be here for some time." "But how did we get here?" asked Milo, who was still a bit puzzled by being there at all. "You jumped, of course," explained Canby. "That's the way most everyone gets here."
- The flawed study in question claims corporate sustainability increases stock returns.
- Stalin is generally heavily criticised for allowing huge exports including military-relevant material to Germany right up to invasion day, and a common view seems to be he was an idiot for not stopping all trade once it was clear war was inevitable.
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