Welcome!
This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Here are my most recent blog posts.
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LinkedIn Project URLs, posted on 2026-02-05
LinkedIn has removed the ability to associate a ‘project’ with a URL. It seems the new flow that they want users to adopt is to associate ‘media’ with projects. These media items can have a URL or a static file.
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A Series on SEM - Part 4, posted on 2026-01-07
Building on the deep-dive into Stata’s structural equation modeling (SEM) facilities, I turn now to R.
There were a few hiccups to picking up lavaan. First and foremost, strictly exogenous latent variables (i.e., those on the right hand side only) are not supported. They all need to be defined by a measurement model. Somewhat annoying since
Alphais fundamentally an error term, but not really an issue since it is definitionally independent of all predictors. There’s really no difference between regressingAlphaonwagevs. regressingwageonAlpha. -
A Series on SEM - Part 3, posted on 2025-12-12
This is a relatively minor update on my saga of tacking the many-headed beast that is structural equation modeling (SEM).
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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Now listening to
re6ce and ThxSoMch
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Now listening to
Thotcrime, Cocojoey, Full Body 2, and Anamanaguchi, all live at Metro
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Now listening to
Joywave, live at Uptown Live
My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
- Queen of Venus by Flavor Foley
- Hiraeth by Sub Urban
- 555 by Sub Urban
- Water the Roses by Flavor Foley
- havefun by Kill Eva
Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: March 19, 2026
Subject: I don’t like the Wikipedia definition of Bayesian statistics. The Merriam-Webster definition is much better!
Here’s what it says: Bayesian statistics is a theory in the field of statistics based on the Bayesian interpretation of probability, where probability expresses a degree of belief in an event. I disagree with this definition! Why don’t I like … Continue r…
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From: Imperfect notes on an imperfect world
Date: March 18, 2026
Subject: Risk on
Risk off
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From: Drezner’s World
Date: March 18, 2026
Subject: Could Trump's Gulf War Turn Out Well?
Probably not -- but this is a useful intellectual exercise.
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