I’m an associate teaching professor of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I help lead the Teaching Statistics Group studying how students learn statistics and how we can teach better, and conduct research on the COVID-19 response, including the largest public health survey ever conducted.
You should read my book Statistics Done Wrong, the woefully complete guide to the many ways that statistics is abused in science. Now available in print, published by No Starch Press!
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You can contact me at areinhar@stat.cmu.edu or find me in my office, Baker 232K.
Notebooks
I keep extensive online notebooks on random topics of interest to me. Some recent updates:
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Regression – October 1, 2024
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Data ethics – September 27, 2024
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Algorithmic fairness – September 27, 2024
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Course evaluations – March 1, 2024
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Experimental design – February 15, 2024
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Dimensional analysis in statistics – February 14, 2024
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Privacy and surveillance – January 30, 2024
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Writing – October 4, 2023
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Rhetorical structure of writing – October 4, 2023
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Pedagogy – October 3, 2023
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…and a bunch more.
Blog
Recent posts from the refsmmat report:
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Other writing
Old projects
- ScienceForums.net, one of the world’s largest online discussion forums focused on science and science news.
- The Regressomatic, an interactive demonstration of linear regression diagnostics.
- jsphys, a Javascript-powered special relativity simulator for classroom use.
- madman, a Python-based Mad Libs generator that uses Markov chains to generate rather alarming texts. Provide a perfectly sensible text file and madman makes it less sensible.
- seuss, a Python-based poetry generator that uses Markov chains to create humorous and surprising poems.