Timothy Hayes

New missing data paper just dropped, in collaboration with my friends @ABarPhD and @DrStefanyC! =D link.springer.com/article/10.375… Come for the data mining, stay for a discussion of some oft-overlooked nuances of different MAR missing data mechanisms. 1/

Happy Friday! I am clearly in a mood.

“Most youth own smartphones.”

Interesting and important topic!

@SMasonGarrison Congrats @SMasonGarrison!

Well that's neat! scholar.google.com/citations?user…

@GolinoHudson Wait, are you telling me that teens interact with parents??

Nathalia Bailey now presenting her work on teen-to-mother interactions!

Had a blast teaching SEM at #APS2025! Great group of workshop attendees asking thoughtful, engaging questions. Hopefully folks learned something and had fun in the process!

8 mo home sick from daycare. No big deal but marathon kinda day. Circa hour 11 of the waking day we’re watching Ms Rachel and all of a sudden, I swear to God, she goes: “Can you say … help? … HELP … heeeeeelp …” And my brain starts to break, just a little. 😅😂🤣

I am Dunkin, Dunkin is me.

I have neither beneficence nor respect for the persons who created the extremely long CITI Training Good Clinical Practice modules and mandatory 100% quiz question pass rate requirement. 😒

Matrix overview slides for my regression class are coming along.

@DougSteinley 😂😂😂

@letsnotbehayest That sounds like the nihilistic binomial

The negative binomial is just like the regular binomial, except everything is terrible and nothing matters and what’s even the point?

It is only our hubris that ever led us to name it “the negative binomial distribution” instead of “the Poisson distribution with wiggly gamma means.”

@quantitudepod It has! I feel a lot better now, and I think I might even be up for a drink. Perhaps some white ZINBfandel, just like we used to drink at gamma’s house….

@letsnotbehayest We are glad if the episode put some ZIP back in your step.

S6E18 Count Variables In today’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about outcomes that are count variables: when you need to worry about them and what you can do about them within your analytical models.

All pneumonia is walking pneumonia when you own an extremely needy dog. 🐕

As always, treating the history of statistics with the respect and reverence that it deserves.

I can’t catch a break. But I *can* catch literally every virus my daughter picks up at daycare.

One of the old FIU cybersecurity trainings talked about building a ‘strong shield’ against cybersecurity threats. Now, when I report a phishing email or text, in my head, I’m like, “FUCK YOU, MY SHIELD IS STRONG!” Not sure if that means that the training was effective or not.

No one: Daycare: March 3rd is dress up like Dr Seuss day! 😃