Josh Nugent, PhD

Biostatistician at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research focusing on causal inference. Before earning my doctorate, I was a high school math teacher for 8 years, among other things. Please see my Google Scholar profile for the most up-to-date publication list.

Informal projects & experiments

• nobadbabynames.com: Inspired by the recent arrival of a nephew, an analysis of state-level patterns in newborn names and future name popularity prediction.

• dumdum.fyi: Real estate searching & price prediction. Also packaged as a Chrome extension.

• swoopscore.win: Why keep score in card games with paper when you could use your phone?

• Vignette on adjusting settings, trying different optimizers, and/or using the allFit() function to help achieve convergence in lmer/glmer mixed models. At least one person (not me) has used this to save their dissertation research from failure!