Update: 21 May 4:45 am. I forgot to actually upload the file until right this moment. Thanks to Mike and Harry for the reminder. Chapter 5 is ready to go. This is […]
Stats 101: Chapter 3
Three is ready to go. I should re-emphasize one of the goals of this book. It is meant to be for that large host of unfortunates who are forced—I mean required—to take […]
Heartland Climate Conference Summary
This is an editorial that I sent out to various places. I am one of the scientists that attended the recent Heartland Climate Conference in Manhattan, where I live. It is my […]
Hitting or Pitching. Which wins more games?
By Tim Murray and William Briggs You obviously need to score runs to win baseball games, and buying better hitters does this for a team. But you also need to keep your […]
Example of how easy it is to mislead yourself: stepwise regression
I am, of course, a statistician. So perhaps it will seem unusual to you when I say I wish there were fewer statistics done. And by that I mean that I’d like […]
Greenpeace is shocked–shocked–to discover lobbying going on
There is a belief among certain paranormal researchers—these are the guys who study mind reading, clairvoyance, etc.—that is used to explain why psychic experiments haven’t seen positive results. It is called the […]
Beer: alcohol, calories, and carbs
Which beer style has the most calories? In general: porters. The least: lager, the style of beer with which you are probably most familiar. Budweiser, Miller, Coors, the majority of all mass-market […]
Can having a mammogram kill you? How to make decisions under uncertainty.
The answer to the headline is, unfortunately, yes. The Sunday, 10 February 2008 New York Post reported this sad case of a woman at Mercy Medical Center in New York City. The […]
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