Stats and Cats Blog
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Correlation Is Not Causation, Illustrated With Cat Food
A study shows premium cat food extends feline life. It probably doesn't. A walkthrough of confounders, causal DAGs, and collider bias: the machinery behind each illusion.
Discrete vs Continuous Distributions: PMF, PDF, and CDF
The difference between discrete and continuous probability distributions, explained through the PMF, PDF, and CDF, with cat examples that are doing actual work.
Articles on probability distributions, statistical inference, and the concepts that undergraduate statistics courses introduce but don't always make time to explain well. The cats are load-bearing.