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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Halfway Exploring a City (or two), posted on 2026-07-07
Progress on my series of posts about Midwestern cities has been severely delayed. The reason is that, after reflecting on the visits I had in the latter half of 2025, I don’t believe I saw enough.
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A Series on SEM - Part 5, posted on 2026-03-19
This is the final part of a series on structural equation modeling (SEM). Previously I came to the conclusion that replicating my reference model in lavaan will require declaring some covariances to be zero. This is essentially an inappropriate assumption that the variables are independent. There had already been some suspicion that Stata was making assumptions like this implicitly.
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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.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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Live at Mayfestiversary 2026
Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine on the Main Stage, and Scott & Odie on the Secret Stage
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Now listening to They Might Be Giants, live at the Vic
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Now listening to
re6ce and ThxSoMch
My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
- IT GOES... by Marian Hill
- Talk On The Hill by Willow
- 104.5 Sky Fm by Combatlove
- I Built You A Tower (a) by Death Cab for Cutie
- Queen of Venus by Flavor Foley
Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: July 8, 2026
Subject: Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weights
Last week we talked about The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll: New weighting variable: support score = E(2024 vote | other X variables). New weighting method: energy balancing (Huling & Mak, 2024) Ben Schneider helpfully blogged about energ…
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From: cr.yp.to blog
Date: July 7, 2026
Subject: NSA and IETF, part 8
Fairness. #pqcrypto #hybrids #nsa #ietf #riskmanagement
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From: Trade Diversion
Date: July 7, 2026
Subject: Market Size and Trade in Medical Services (revised and expanded)
My coauthors and I posted a substantially revised draft of “Market Size and Trade in Medical Services” last week. As I wrote about the first draft: There’s a long-running discussion in health policy about “spatial mismatch”: are doctors and clinics too co…
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