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Simpson’s paradox, resolved

In statistics, there are a multitude of paradoxes; These strange situations that challenge our intuition. Simpson’s paradox is probably the best known, often encountered and certainly one of the most intriguing. Described in 1903 by Yule, Simpson’s paradox also called…

Judea Pearl’s Ladder of Causation

Throughout my studies in psychology, teachers continuously repeat the sentence that now has became a dogma: Correlation is not Causation! Apart from this mantra, we had no more information on what is causality and how to identify it. At least,…

New major version of Pymc

PYMC received a major update: version 6.0., but not only! All the ecosystem around this package (Pytensor, Arviz, and more) benefited from a major update. Let’s see what’s new in the different areas: Backend Pytensor also received a major update…

FDA recommends Bayesian stats

In January, the Food and Drugs Agency (FDA) has evolved into acceptance and even in some cases a recommendation (!) of the use of Bayesian statistics in the evaluation of devices and medical treatments (see the press release for more…