Amanda Luby
amandaluby.bsky.social
Amanda Luby
@amandaluby.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Statistics @ Carleton College | PhD CMU Stats

Interested in: statistics for forensics and the law; psychometrics; latent variable models; statistics education

https://aluby.github.io/
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Ron Wasserstein, E.D. of the American Statistical Association, has just posted a statement regarding yesterday's shutdown of the US Census website and the removal more broadly of data collected with taxpayer funding from federal websites.
www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa... @amstatnews.bsky.social
Ron Wasserstein on LinkedIn: Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
Without explanation, the U.S. Census Bureau's website (census.gov) was taken offline for two hours on January 31, 2025, raising serious concerns about access…
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February 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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We just published an exciting paper. Due to the statistical flaws in validity studies, we don't know the error rates in firearms casework, i.e. the discipline doesn't have a scientific basis. @amandaluby.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social @mrosenblum.bsky.social

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Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons
Abstract. Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded t
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December 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM