Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Testing for Cross country heterogeneity in Growth Models using a finite mixture approach Marco Alfo', Giovanni Trovato and Robert J. Wal...

Some of Jack Abramoff's clients testified under oath that he advised them to donate money to both major parties. See here here and he...

Now That is Data Mining Kevin Drum explains . Data mining is not when you handle way lots of data, data mining is when you handle data Lott...

Glenn Reynolds discusses comments at the WAPO Washington, D.C.: Hi, my question is for Glenn and then maybe Jane would like to comment. Why ...

What is a Fishing Expedition ? As has been noted everywhere , Scott McClellan said, when asked who Jack Abramoff met in the White House etc ...

What is Data Mining ? I am familiar with the phrase as a pejorative. If a researcher performs a large number of statistical tests and cherr...

Ben Carter An Enemy of the People (dear reader I hope you are familiar with Ibsen)

A block buster article by Dan Eggen on political bias in the Justice Department's voting section. As has been reported already, Bush...

Ripon Rip Off It is illegal for lobbyists to pay for travel for lawmakers. Thus non profit corporations serve as money laundrys. Most are ...

Antidigital Divide A narrow interest group for me. It is a group of Italian residents who don't have broad band and who protest this in...

Kathryn Jean Lopez (NRO Editor) does not know what Irony is. via firedoglake via The General himself . With respect to General JC Christian...

Speaking of Paranoia Recently I was discussing 1984 and paranoia with my daughter. The NSA spying is not our families main concern at the m...

Kickapoo Joy In one shot that TIME saw, Bush appears with Abramoff, several unidentified people and Raul Garza Sr., a Texan Abramoff represe...

Howell's by now retracted corrected and cancelled howler I am beginning to be concerned about my obsession with Deborah Howell. I belie...

Howell's Howler Case Closed Deborah Howler has written a column which has been printed in which she, finally, admits that the 11 word se...

As we were driving in my car, My daughter Marina said M "So George Orwell is your favorite author" R "yeah I guess so why ? ...

Howell's Howler VII Mark Schmitt absolutely nails the Washington Post in a very important ... comment on Brad DeLong's blog . ...

Howell's Howler VII Mark Schmitt absolutely nails the Washington Post in a very important ... comment on Brad DeLong's blog . href=...

The Presidentialist Papers via The Carpetbagger Report A guide to reading as they read in the Bush White House f e d e r a l is pronounced l...

I mostly agree with Jim Brady On the other hand he typed an emoticon "Jim Brady: Figured one note from a supporter would be OK. :-)...