Lars P. Syll

Spirit in the Sky (personal) .[embedded content] Marcel Proust hade sin Madeleinekaka. Jag har musiken. Den här låten är för mig alltid förknippad med sommarminnen på 70-talet från Hästveda och Luhrsjön, där jag och kompisen Johan (Ehrenberg) brukade spela flipper vid strandcaféet och den här låten gick varm på jukeboxen. Minnen som fortfarande värmer och som glömskan inte rår på.

Problems with Propensity Score Matching (wonkish) .[embedded content]

Neues von Gerhard Schröder .[embedded content]

Statistical inference and sampling assumptions Real probability samples have two great benefits: (i) they allow unbiased extrapolation from the sample; (ii) with data internal to the sample, it is possible to estimate how much results are likely to change if another sample is taken. These benefits, of course, have a price: drawing probability samples is hard work. An investigator who assumes that a convenience sample is like a random sample seeks to obtain...

Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone .[embedded content]

Nils Frahm — Some .[embedded content]

Fisher’s exact test (student stuff) .[embedded content]

On mathematics and economics Studying mathematics and logic is interesting and fun. It sharpens the mind. But economics is not pure mathematics or logic. It’s about society. The real world. Forgetting that, economics becomes nothing but an irrelevant and uninteresting ‘Glasperlenspiel.’ Or as Knut Wicksell put it already a century ago: One must, of course, beware of expecting from this method more than it can give. Out of the crucible of calculation comes...

Il vortice della mondanità .[embedded content] A movie as large as life itself.

Marine Le Pen — Sherlock Holmes of the century .[embedded content] Guess there are a couple of things that lady ought to be informed about when it comes to Russian elections …