{"id":344,"date":"2011-01-11T21:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/01\/11\/banned_no_not_me\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:58:14","slug":"banned_no_not_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/01\/11\/banned_no_not_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned! (no, not me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. The Chinese translation of Andrew Gelman&#8217;s book on hierarchical models and Bayesian analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~cook\/movabletype\/archives\/2011\/01\/i_guess_they_fi.html\">has been banned<\/a>, due to &#8220;various politically sensitive materials in the text&#8221;. He must be so proud.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll check the text tomorrow to see what might be so sensitive &#8211; perhaps they don&#8217;t like instrumental variables. But until then feel free to speculate, in an appropriate manner.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(actually, if you want to learn about Bayesian stuff, it&#8217;s an excellent text. Although if you get the Chinese edition, you might be hauled off to plant rice for 15 years)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. The Chinese translation of Andrew Gelman&#8217;s book on hierarchical models and Bayesian analysis has been banned, due to &#8220;various politically sensitive materials in the text&#8221;. He must be so proud. I&#8217;ll check the text tomorrow to see what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/01\/11\/banned_no_not_me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}