Anthropology's Epiphanies: Some Things I Learned from James Fernandez

Things I Have Learned ( So Far )

This is an account of what I have learned (so far) about the application of statistics to psychology and the other sociobiomedical sciences. It includes the principles "less is more" (fewer variables, more highly targeted issues, sharp rounding off), "simple is better" (graphic representation, unit weighting for linear composites), and "some things you learn aren't so." I have learned to avoid ...

Some things we’ve learned (about Markov chain Monte Carlo)

Simulation, especially Markov chain Monte Carlo, is close to putting elementary probability (Feller Volume I-style) out of business. This was brought home to me recently in an applied study: Lauren Banklader, Marc Coram, and I were studying “smooshing cards,” a widely used mixing scheme where a deck of cards is slid around on the table by two hands. How long should the sliding go on to adequate...

Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Some Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster in Iran

Background: Disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. Psychosocial Rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. This research attempts to study some lessons learned from Psychosocial Rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in Iran. M...

Some lessons learned from the AIDS pandemic.

psychosocial rehabilitation: some lessons learned from natural disaster in iran

background: disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. psychosocial rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. this research attempts to study some lessons learned from psychosocial rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in iran. materials and methods:...