reluctant criminologists

blog posts

Moderator Madness, Part 1

general

rstats

moderation

Properly model, plot, and interpret your nonlinear interactions.

Jul 18, 2023

48 min

Are you afraid of colliders?

general

rstats

causality

Learn to fear colliders, the rancor in your regression model. Then, learn to face those fears and overcome colliders with a DAG, the elegant weapon of a Jedi scientist.

Jun 6, 2023

65 min

Causation without Correlation?

general

rstats

causality

mediation

You’ve heard the phrase ‘correlation does not imply causation.’ But does causation imply correlation?

Apr 10, 2023

39 min

Dr. Charles R. Tittle’s intellectual contributions

general

This post is dedicated to the intellectual contributions of our late mentor, Dr. Charles R. Tittle.

Mar 12, 2023

31 min

Check out some of our favorite sites

general

rstats

causality

bayesian

We have learned so much from blogs, bookdowns, and videos openly shared by others. Here, we compiled a list of some of our favorite resources.

Mar 11, 2023

8 min

Welcome to the reluctant criminologists

general

You found our repository for sharing course material and ideas. Congrats! Or condolences. Anyway, in this first post, we discuss our motives and aims for this site.

Mar 10, 2023

8 min

course materials

Course 1: Introduction to statistics in R for criminologists

Course 2: Replication & reproducibility in social science

Categories

blog posts

Moderator Madness, Part 1

Are you afraid of colliders?

Causation without Correlation?

Dr. Charles R. Tittle’s intellectual contributions

Check out some of our favorite sites

Welcome to the reluctant criminologists

course materials