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08 Nov: Data topology and statistical stability: pyTstability

The last month or so I have been burning the candle at both ends, investigating dataset properties and their relationship with how statistical models operate. It’s been rather fascinating to be able t.. (more)

11 Aug: Gaussian Process for Areal controls in linguistic typology

This is a blog post that I’ve had in mind for awhile, and as I was working on it I realized that there is a bit of groundwork needed. Part of that groundwork was laid in a previous post where I showed.. (more)

17 Mar: Controlling for Descent and Area in linguistic typology

When conducting comparative studies on linguistic features, we are essentially observing patterns. In a previous post I mentioned one problem we need to deal with, related to how we represent the feat.. (more)