Quantitude

By: Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran
  • Summary

  • 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.
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Episodes
  • S6E14 Factor Rotation: But is it Art?
    Feb 4 2025

    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, haystacks, drug fronts, being insufferable, ignoramuses, .22's and stop signs, weak pivots, honking factors, pooping out matrices, the Gulf of America, twitchy eyeballs, big fat zeros, obliquity, and Extortomax.

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    • Web page: quantitudepod.org
    • TwitterX: @quantitudepod
    • YouTube: @quantitudepod
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    43 mins
  • S6E13 Group Codes in GLM: Dummy and Dummier
    Jan 21 2025

    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 hacking up a lung, made for audio faces, walking pneumonia, putting Vicks VapoRub on your feet, cards in your spokes, confusing rental cars, crash test dummies, what is your quest, 25-cent Nyquil night, Bonferroni glasses, the Romans, and Nyquil haze.

    Stay in contact with Quantitude!

    • Web page: quantitudepod.org
    • TwitterX: @quantitudepod
    • YouTube: @quantitudepod
    • Merch: redbubble.com
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    46 mins
  • S6E12 Suppression Unrepressed
    Jan 7 2025

    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 predictive utility of other variables in the model. Along the way they also discuss getting the giggles, giving away our secrets, Sigmund Freud, repressed variance, Greg's defense mechanisms, Keyser Soze, the Cookie Monster, squirrel proof bird feeders, World War II, street magicians, Paul's corpse, and before zero was invented.

    Stay in contact with Quantitude!

    • Web page: quantitudepod.org
    • TwitterX: @quantitudepod
    • YouTube: @quantitudepod
    • Merch: redbubble.com
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    38 mins

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