What makes a model good? 📊 August 9, 2020

A follow-up to some tweets on how we train and test statistical models

One way to make a model more uncertain is to use a statistical distribution with fat tails. But that’s a little demeaning—the Cauchy prefers to be called “big-boned.” And this is my weekly newsletter.

I’m G. Elliott Morris, a data journalist and political analyst who mostly covers polls, elections, and political science. As always, I invite you to drop m…