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Our contributing columnist Ruobin Gong, writes: “Correlation is not causation” is among the most widely recited tenets of statistical literacy. It is somewhat odd for a concept to be better known for what it is not than for what it is. For correlation, the statistician is quick to warn of…

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Ruobin Gong writes: ChatGPT is a chatbot that derives its power from large language models trained on massive amounts of data. For the most part, it appears to be incredibly smart and knowledgeable. Botox, or botulinum toxin A, is a neurotoxic protein that can relax facial muscles. It is a…

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Contributing Editor Ruobin Gong shared some pieces of advice on cutting a path through the data science jungle: The winter months of an academic year may appear slow and dormant. But for a thriving discipline like statistics, that cannot be further from the truth. From November to February, many statistics…

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Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, responds to Chris Burdzy’s Presidential Address, delivered at the 2022 IMS meeting in London. In his Presidential Address, Professor Chris Burdzy urged the IMS community to “stop using the term ‘subjective’ in reference to any part of statistics.” He further professed emotionally that “I love…

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Winner of the 2021 COPSS Leadership Academy and author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World, Claire McKay Bowen, Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, talks with our contributing editor Ruobin Gong about data privacy, public policy research, and data science education. RG: Claire, thank…

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