Finding truth

For people who do not have invested interest in politics or audience rating, finding truth is often the ultimate goal. This blog is very interesting (http://kadfly.blogspot.com/).

Fetal origins

Here are some references:

1. Hayward, M. D., and B. K. Gorman. 2004. "The Long Arm of Childhood." Demography 41:87-107.
   
   

Cure models are tricky

I am trying to estimate cure model (long-term survivor model) using "strsmix" and "strsnmix" in Stata. It took me quite a while to realize that good starting values are crucial for quick convergence, something I only thought of when estimating aML or Mplus models.

Lots of research resources

This place has lots of research resources: http://seer.cancer.gov/resources/

Is spring here?

For the firs time in months I opened my windows today. It is warm outside. Maybe the harsh BJ winter has gone and the spring is here.

PersonalBrain

Another cool toy.

Making footnote double-spaced, in LaTeX

Here is a solution: \footnote{\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}\selectfont blablabla}.

Causual inference et al.

Here is a list of interesting resources:

1. http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/bias.html
2. http://www.mata.co.uk/meeting/6nasug/causal.pdf
3. http://www.stata.com/meeting/5nasug/wiv.pdf
4. http://pped.org/stata/ciwod.pdf
5. ...
   

KDE 4 is counterintuitive

I installed the KDE 4 components on my Ubuntu box and took a good look at it. I was disappointed because, compared to KDE 3, the new version makes some routine operations more difficult. I have to uninstall it after one day and got back to the old Gnome interface. I don't think I will try it any time soon, unless there are some significant changes.