R | statistics | data science | cognitive science | 🚲 🍻 🐕‍🦺 Research Officer @ Massey Universityhttps://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mk6sgur3vs23Something I keep returning to when reflecting on my training: stats was taught as a checklist, not a way of thinking. Worse, the curriculum shaped what questions we thought to ask, not just how we answered them. New piece on what that costs, and what it could have been. https://medium.com/@dataforyou/statistical-technicians-2c1fab66ccea23 Apr 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6sgur3vs23https://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mjo4flgufk25Do we still need to test for equal variances before running ANOVA? Probably not as a decision rule. Welch's ANOVA, robust SEs, and variance-modelling approaches handle heterogeneity directly — assumption tests have shifted from gatekeepers to descriptive companions. https://medium.com/p/do-we-really-need-to-test-variances-anymore-2fa727aa7334?source=social.bluesky17 Apr 2026 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjo4flgufk25https://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mj7lctvhzk2fRevised post: Prussian soldiers, horse kicks, and Bayesian inference 🐎 I've revamped an old post on the Gamma-Poisson model — more historical context, a cleaner derivation, and a new section showing how the posterior updates sequentially across 20 years of data. https://medium.com/p/kicking-it-with-a-bayesian-gamma-poisson-model-9263fd7a6af5?source=social.bluesky11 Apr 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7lctvhzk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mj75ue2zqc2zAnother one from the archives. This was actually the first blog I ever wrote. In it I cover what multicollinearity is and when it becomes an issue for modellers. Enjoy 😊 https://medium.com/data-science/multicollinearity-problem-or-not-d4bd7a9cfb9111 Apr 2026 05:59 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj75ue2zqc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mj75krhtq22zThis is one from the archives. A while back a provided a discussion about the difference between probability and likelihood. Hopefully it’s still a useful piece for someone out there 🙂 https://medium.com/data-science/on-probability-versus-likelihood-83386b81ad8311 Apr 2026 05:54 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj75krhtq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dataforyou.bsky.social/post/3mj5yrc7vwc2xHi Bluesky community 👋 I’m a data scientist and mathematical modeller with a background in cognitive science, where I used computational models to study how the brain represents information. Now I build data tools and write about making complex ideas clear and useful. Glad to be here!10 Apr 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:sngve4755eo4vgda5d5d6pdi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5yrc7vwc2x