Gregory R. Hancock

I don’t know what the question is, but the answer is almost never “MANOVA.”

S7E17 Elements of Structural Equation Models with Ken Bollen We talk with Ken Bollen, Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his all *new* SEM book and the many recent developments since his monumental 1989 text.

The past, present, and future of SEM, with Ken Bollen, tomorrow…

Mentoring a research assistant

A few months ago we introduced nmax as your insurance policy for sample size planning. @GregoryRHancock Today we’re excited to launch the nmax Shiny app. Sample size planning with nmax can now be done in just a few button clicks! 🚀 yifeng-quant.shinyapps.io/nmax/

S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs This week, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach can strengthen our causal inferences when using quasi-experimental data.

Looking sharp (or fuzzy), tomorrow…

S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe... In this In the Wild episode, we turn our Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, we discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at all, and what issues we’d need addressed to be able to answer that question.

Feel free to share your own heartfelt quantitative sentiments as we look ahead to Valentine’s Day…

Questioning our values, tomorrow…

S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode Today we talk, for the 3rd time, about power, drawing on a recent paper by Hancock & Feng that reminds us how little we really know when sample size planning, and offers a concrete way to plan in the face of that uncertainty.

Seeing our shadow tomorrow…

Heading outside to shovel the driveway for the second time. Pro tip: Replace half the peanuts in your trail mix with ibuprofen… 

S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models This week we explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alternative to the more restrictive time-varying covariate model.

Time for TVEM, tomorrow…

@Gladwell If you were telling the story of the podcast over the last 10 years, what do you wish you could revise? Or what would you have to work hard to keep yourself from revising in the telling of that story?

Hello everyone. We are doing a special 10th anniversary special of my podcast Revisionist History. And I’m wondering if listeners have a) questions for the anniversary mailbag and b) nominees for best episode ever. Thanks!

When your postdoc does the data analysis and gets p=.049

S7E12 The Gift of Regifting This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they frantically regift one another some of their favorite sponsors from prior episodes.

The gift that keeps on giving, tomorrow…