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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 Lecture 6: Reading External Data Part I

By Briggs on February 4, 2010 • ( Leave a comment )

10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Go to https://www.wmbriggs.com/book/ and save the advertising.csv file into your myR folder. Make SURE it is saved as a CSV file and NOT […]

Quirk’s: Telling the future from the past: predictive versus classical statistics

By Briggs on February 4, 2010 • ( 4 Comments )

Today’s post is at Quirk’s, the well known trade journal and marketing research review. If you want to read the article on-line at Quirk’s, registration is required, but free. You can also […]

Malthus Was Wrong, But Not Why You Think

By Briggs on February 3, 2010 • ( 27 Comments )

It’s hard to think of a historical writer more misunderstood than Thomas Malthus. A week doesn’t go by without somebody dropping his name, but only to show how wrong he was. Take […]

R Lecture 5: Reading Built-in Data

By Briggs on February 2, 2010 • ( 3 Comments )

This is the fifth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we read in some datasets that come with R. To list, […]

2011 Per Capita Budget Highest Ever

By Briggs on February 2, 2010 • ( 16 Comments )

President Obama submitted the 2011 fiscal year budget. If Congress passes it—and history shows that the approximate amount requested is usually granted—then this will be the highest the USA has ever spent, […]

Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia

By Briggs on February 1, 2010 • ( 13 Comments )

Rajendra Pachauri—chairman of the IPCC, railway engineer, and the man who penned these words, “Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay’s bed. He was overcome by a lust that he […]

Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad and the Washington Post Editorial

By Briggs on January 31, 2010 • ( 37 Comments )

Very delicate ground, here. I want to be as precise as I know how in discussing the language used in today’s Washington Post editorial about the upcoming Tim Tebow ad, while trying […]

Welcome-to-Saturday Links

By Briggs on January 30, 2010 • ( 9 Comments )

My heart soared like a hawk this week after several readers sent in fascinating stories. Here are a few of them. Reader Sara C sent in a wonderful example of how easy […]

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