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Class 77: Trendy Trends In Time Series

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Who Still Listens To AM Radio?

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Richard Muller’s Political Move—BEST is Best? Sophisticated Statistics!

Our Berkeley Earth approach used sophisticated statistical methods developed largely by our lead scientist, Robert Rohde, which allowed us to determine earth land temperature much further back in time. Ah,…
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Here's the PDF of my talk DDP 30th Annual Meeting. "Statistical Follies and Epidemiology." They picked the title. Have fun!
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True Value Of A Parameter

Jelle de Jong writes in to ask: Working as a quant analyst in finance I recently got interested in the Briggsian/Jaynesian/Bayesian interpretation of probability but am still struggling a bit…
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What Probably Isn’t: Heat Waves and Nine Feet Tall Men: Part II

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What Probably Isn’t: Heat Waves and Nine Feet Tall Men: Part I

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Men Nine Feet Tall And Bayes Theorem

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  1. spetzer86 on Class 77: Trendy Trends In Time SeriesJanuary 29, 2026

    You also need to consider the amount of trust in the data over time. If you have any reason to…

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    Over 60, used to listen to AM all the time as a kid. Mostly WHO and other Des Moines stations.…

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    Yep. Flyover, so during the daytime, there was only local dreck, but nighttime, KFYR (Bismark), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WLW (Cinncinnati,…

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