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How To Gamble If You Must

By Briggs on January 30, 2023 • ( 5 Comments )

Pfizer’s Gain-Of-Lethality Research Sting: Clown-World Contagion Comedy

By Briggs on January 27, 2023 • ( 24 Comments )

We Put Some Uncomfortable Questions To Those Who Say There Is A Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”

By Briggs on January 26, 2023 • ( 8 Comments )

The Woke Will Never Let Us Go: Comments On Anton’s Secession Dialogue

By Briggs on January 25, 2023 • ( 23 Comments )

What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

By Briggs on January 24, 2023 • ( 19 Comments )

Women Firemen To Be Allowed To Battle Fires With Feelings In Connecticut

By Briggs on January 23, 2023 • ( 14 Comments )

R Lectures Update

By Briggs on February 11, 2010 • ( 2 Comments )

Lectures are on hold for the next two weeks. I’ll be traveling and unable to to create any new award-winning videos. Nor any new non-award-winning videos.

Predictive Statistics: GPA Case Study, Part II

By Briggs on February 10, 2010 • ( 9 Comments )

Read Part I : Download the Quirk’s article. To understand why ordinary regression assumptions are bad, we need to look at some (new data) scenarios. Suppose that Bob had a HGPA of […]

Predictive Statistics: GPA Case Study, Part I

By Briggs on February 9, 2010 • ( 12 Comments )

Read Part II : Download the Quirk’s article. Predictive statistics differs from classical (frequentist and Bayesian) practices because it focuses on observables and not metaphysical entities. Observables are the data we can […]

Monday Moanin’

By Briggs on February 8, 2010 • ( 11 Comments )

I stole that title from the late Bob Talbert, an everyman columnist from the late, or possibly undead, Detroit Free Press. He would use that title whenever he had a column to […]

Ayn Rand and the Differences Between Groups

By Briggs on February 7, 2010 • ( 47 Comments )

Roger Kimball is causing a stink, a predictable yet enjoyable stink, by publishing Anthony Daniels’s review of an Ayn Rand biography in this month’s The New Criterion. There are two enduring internet-subjects […]

What do you guys look like?

By Briggs on February 6, 2010 • ( 40 Comments )

How many of you are there? According to a mixture of WordPress and Google Analytics statistics reports, I receive roughly twelve to fifteen hundred hits per day. That’s excluding bots and other […]

R Lecture 7: Reading External Data Part II

By Briggs on February 6, 2010 • ( 3 Comments )

10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, some common errors you WILL see when you try to read in data. The code below has many typos. Watch for Windows […]

Climate Skeptic Conspiracy Strikes!

By Briggs on February 5, 2010 • ( 21 Comments )

I have never been part of a conspiracy before—there was never the opportunity—so you can imagine how excited I am about finally joining one. It’s true that, in 1978, I, my sister, […]

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