S4E06 Building the Model You Want: With Laser Cannons!
10/18/22 • 54 min
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In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your variables, your parameters, or your entire model to help get what you want. Along the way they also mention: living in the dorms, Greek god sculpture rockets, not living in the dorms, Christmas tree timers, Def Leppard, Legos, Annie's flower shop, laser cannons, chin music, the tail wagging the dog, the Millennium Falcon, Greenday, stupid human tricks, Tony Robbins, Stuart Smalley, and Iron Man.
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In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your variables, your parameters, or your entire model to help get what you want. Along the way they also mention: living in the dorms, Greek god sculpture rockets, not living in the dorms, Christmas tree timers, Def Leppard, Legos, Annie's flower shop, laser cannons, chin music, the tail wagging the dog, the Millennium Falcon, Greenday, stupid human tricks, Tony Robbins, Stuart Smalley, and Iron Man.
Stay in contact with Quantitude!
- Web page: quantitudepod.org
- TwitterX: @quantitudepod
- YouTube: @quantitudepod
- Merch: redbubble.com
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Quantitude - S4E06 Building the Model You Want: With Laser Cannons!
Transcript
Hi everybody. My name is Greg Hancock and along with my friend whose instructions were thrown out a long time ago Patrick Curran, we make up quantity food. We're a podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the irrelevant to the completely irrelevant. In this episode, we talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your variables, your parameters or your entire model to help g
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