Politics by numbers

... formulate their model but also to interpret the results. But some people do this implicitly without being really systematic and open about it, as opposed to others who do it explicitly. I think the people that do it the best are the people that use Bayesian statistics. They are much more explicit about their beliefs, about specification and the like. Scholars like Jeff Gill from Washington University in St. Louis are really leading social scientists to try to be explicit and use Bayesian methods which make ...