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Great Presidents Revisited

Does history provide a different perspective?

Jim Frost
Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:59
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Recently, Patrick Runkel wrote about using regression models to explain how historians ranked the U.S. presidents. Given that I both love regression and have written about using regression to predict U.S. presidential elections, I wanted to take Runkel up on his challenge to improve on his model.

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My goal isn’t merely to predict the eventual ranking for any president. Instead, I’m much more interested in a fascinating question behind this analysis. Is the public’s contemporary assessment of the president consistent with the historical perspective, or do they differ?

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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 21:50

USStats

Though Statistics were born in the Old Continent, the New World made a giant of them. Such a giant that it hides some meaningful horizons. History is like Water: it goes up and then comes down, again and again. History is Memory, and viceversa - we cannot live of future and improvement only. Cultural diets must be balanced. Thank you.

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