Luke Miratrix
lmiratrix.bsky.social
Luke Miratrix
@lmiratrix.bsky.social
Associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Works on statistical methodology, causal inference, text as data, randomized experiments, and sometimes bad prose and poetry.
After a long road, Lee, Feller, Rabe-Hesketh and I finally got our paper on estimating distributions of cross-site impact heterogeneity accepted at JEBS (arxiv.org/abs/2308.06913)! A celebratory blog post on easy things to do is here: cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/plottin... #empirical_bayes
Plotting distributions of site-level impact estimates (or other collections of noisily estimated things)
Do you ever want to visualize the distribution of effects across sites in a multi-site evaluation (or meta analysis)? For example, consider a multisite trial …
cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu
April 23, 2024 at 1:11 PM
What does it mean when your kid sends you this cartoon?
March 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
The deep irony of posting this here is not lost on me, but I long for the ideal of discourse with attention to nuance rather than absolutism. In short, as a Jew I thank you Senator Schumer: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/u...
March 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Luke Miratrix
lol yeah man, you fucking think?
March 17, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Colleagues and I (as a project with MDRC wrote (yet another) power calculator, primarily for handling corrections for multiple outcomes. But for generic power stuff it easily plots power curves like this! See more @ cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/intro-p... #power_calculation #Statistics
March 12, 2024 at 1:39 PM
HGSE is hiring for an "AI in Education" position--worth checking out. apply.interfolio.com/131655. E.g., ethics of AI in ed, or how AI could be used to improve teaching, or using AI to design materials.
October 19, 2023 at 9:58 AM
It's always nice to be reminded that people are building amazing things and figuring out new ways to live: www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
October 14, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Luke Miratrix
social network taxonomy
September 26, 2023 at 10:51 AM
What a wonderful story about the creepy world we find ourselves in: www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/m...

Having triangulation laid out like that is... sobering.
September 23, 2023 at 6:34 PM