Best links of the week from 7th January to 13th January.

Blog/posts

1. Price’s Law: Why Only A Few People Generate Half Of The Results at Darius Foroux’s blog.
2. Why every data scientist shall read “The Book of Why” by Judea Pearl at Towards Data Science.
3. Understanding Purposive Sampling at ThoughtCo., which is a non-probability sampling, as opposed to random sampling. More about it here at Research Methodology.
4. Why it’s time to publish research “failures” at Elsevier Connect.
5. If your journal still uses “statistical significance” in 2017, retire your statistical consultant at Miguel Hernán’s Twitter feed.
6. Todos os filmes originais Netflix, classificados do pior ao melhor at Revista Bula.
7. Links of the Week at Marcus Nunes’ blog, from where I took the idea to start my links of the week.
8. ML IS NOT SORCERY: UNDERSTANDABLE MACHINE LEARNING FEATURES WITH DEEP HAAR SCATTERING NETWORKS at Fernando Fernandes’ blog.

Scientific Articles

1. Cannabinoid exposure and altered DNA methylation in rat and human sperm at Epigenetics.
2. BAYESIANISM AND CAUSALITY, OR, WHY I AM ONLY A HALF-BAYESIAN at Foundations of Bayesianism.
3. Does Obesity Shorten Life? Or is it the Soda? On Non-manipulable Causes at Journal of Causal Inference.