Lars P. Syll

Vad ALLA bör veta om statistik Även om man inte själv har tänkt sig producera statistik, bör alla som ägnar sig åt akademiska studier i någon form ha nog kunskaper för att förstå och värdera statistik på ett korrekt sätt. Fallgroparna är många. Den här boken hjälper med förtjänstfull pedagogisk handledning att få läsaren att undvika dessa.

Why not all economists like yours truly Yesterday, one of my economics students amused herself by asking a famous AI chatbot “Why not all economists like Lars Syll” and got this — I guess pretty accurate — response … Professor Lars Pålsson Syll is a vocal critic of mainstream economics and advocates for pluralism in economic thinking. Overall, Lars Syll is recognized as a prominent figure in the realm of heterodox economics and critical inquiry into the...

The problem with model-based explanations in economics One of the most important tasks of social sciences is to explain the events, processes, and structures that take place and act in society. Explanations are important within science since the choice between different theories hinges in large part on their explanatory powers. The most reasonable explanation for one theory’s having greater explanatory power than others is that the mechanisms, causal...

You’ve got a friend .[embedded content] In loving memory of Bengt Nilsson — a friend non plus ultra. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you

Data analysis for social sciences (student stuff) .[embedded content] When I teach statistics, I always try to recommend good supplementary material on YouTube to my students. This is a good example.

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Kvantitet framför kvalitet i den högre utbildningen Krisen i den svenska skolan har nått högskolan. I dagens Kaliber berättar universitets-lärare om studenter med låga förkunskaper, om krav som sänks och om ett ersättnings-system som ger mer pengar ju fler studenter som godkänns … Lars Pålsson Syll är professor i samhällskunskap och undervisar bland annat blivande lärare i statistik. Sedan han började undervisa för 30 år sedan har antalet högskolestudenter...

20 Best Econometrics Blogs and Websites in 2024 Yours truly, of course, feels truly honoured to find himself on the list of the world’s 20 Best Econometrics Blogs and Websites. 1. The Stata Blog 3. Cambridge Econometrics Blog 9. How the (Econometric) Sausage is Made 14. Lars P Syll Pålsson Syll received a PhD in economic history in 1991 and a PhD in economics in 1997, both at Lund University. He became an associate professor in economic history in 1995 and...

Econometrics — a second-best explanatory practice While appeal to R squared is a common rhetorical device, it is a very tenuous connection to any plausible explanatory virtues for many reasons. Either it is meant to be merely a measure of predictability in a given data set or it is a measure of causal influence. In either case it does not tell us much about explanatory power. Taken as a measure of predictive power, it is limited in that it predicts...

For as long as it takes .[embedded content] To all my brothers and sisters in Ukraine, fighting the Russian invasion for two years now. May God be with you. Never give in. Never give up.