…a well-read broadly educated guy, and a role model for what a statistician can be, not that every statistician lives up to his standard. I’ve enjoyed talking to him about…

…model of mental health and dominate the whole field. In 1977, the journal Science published a provocative article titled “The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine.”…

…the actual end service being delivered from purchase of their product is from their perspective a dead loss to be reduced. Hence a business model built around denying claims. MLR…

…success and resilience — its very “model of success.” Private equity’s model is to extract the expected future value of those companies in cash, while simultaneously, in most cases, destroying…

…The chart below illustrates the 3-sector financial balances model – read Scott Fullwiler on New Economic Perspectives for a detailed description of the 3-sector financial balances model. According to this…

…long been models in the literature (most with the super strong assumption) which have the property that public debt makes future generations poorer. The distinction between models with infinitely lived…

Neil Wilson has done yeoman’s duty to (perhaps) achieve a convergence that has been too-long delayed. A Double Entry View on the Keen Circuit Model. Steve Keen is, to my…

…model is obviously, consistently, and wildly wrong — and always wrong in the same direction. Altering that model to accurately predict unemployment, of course, would require that they allow more…

…understand that a regulator who actually cares about consumers would cause a seismic change in their business model: No more burying the terms of the agreement in the fine print,…

…tax receipts begin. The problem is… the data isn’t quite amenable to shoehorning into the desired shape. The fit of the model sucks, B is negative, C is positive, and…