There were hundreds of people at Palmer Center's freezing Exhibit Hall No.2 on Thursday night, all waiting for a bigtime policy rumble between proponents and opponents of WTP4's existing development schedule.
Let's look at the highlights...
Demand Projection
Stephen Coonan of Alan Plummer Associates and the author of the …
[MORE]Over at his newish blog, Jonathan Law politely points out that WTP4 opponents, conservationists and I are sort of full of it. He writes:
[MORE]Unfortunately, opponents of this plan have chosen a convenient sticking point – the statistical methods employed – as the basis of their objections. These objections shouldn’t be …
Over at the Austin Post there are two great pieces on the budget by contributor Marius. In one of them, Marius provides interesting evidence that our police expenditure is not optimal for response times relative to peer cities. In another, Marius makes the case for privatizing Austin utilities. Marius concludes …
[MORE]Austin Contrarian with how discussions of projections and "regression" seemed to be unfolding.
As I anticipated, the demand modeling uses linear regression of one independent variable: population. However, to my surprise, the r-squared is high. For example, the sole population independent variable explains about 75% of the variation in peak …
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Austin Contrarian was kind enough to post post. This moment is great. We need our public servants to be using these concepts to get better answers. It completely warmed my heart.
Unfortunately, her main point about regression - at least how …
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