Publications by Yucheng Hu
Assignment #5
Chapter 6 - The Haunted DAG & The Causal Terror Multiple regression is no oracle, but only a golem. It is logical, but the relationships it describes are conditional associations, not causal influences. Therefore additional information, from outside the model, is needed to make sense of it. This chapter presented introductory examples of some com...
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Assignment #8
Chapter 9 - Markov Chain Monte Carlo This chapter has been an informal introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation. The goal has been to introduce the purpose and approach MCMC algorithms. The major algorithms introduced were the Metropolis, Gibbs sampling, and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithms. Each has its advantages and disadva...
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Assignment #7
Chapter 8 - Conditional Manatees This chapter introduced interactions, which allow for the association between a predictor and an outcome to depend upon the value of another predictor. While you can’t see them in a DAG, interactions can be important for making accurate inferences. Interactions can be difficult to interpret, and so the chapter a...
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Assignment #9
Chapter 11 - God Spiked the Integers This chapter described some of the most common generalized linear models, those used to model counts. It is important to never convert counts to proportions before analysis, because doing so destroys information about sample size. A fundamental difficulty with these models is that parameters are on a different...
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Assignment #10
Chapter 12 - Monsters and Mixtures This chapter introduced several new types of regression, all of which are generalizations of generalized linear models (GLMs). Ordered logistic models are useful for categorical outcomes with a strict ordering. They are built by attaching a cumulative link function to a categorical outcome distribution. Zero-inf...
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