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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 )

Italian political tactics no different than Italian soccer tactics

By Briggs on January 25, 2008 • ( 5 Comments )

As pointed out by my number one son, “during the debate [in the Italian senate] one senator rushed in fury to the desk of a colleague, Stefano Cusumano, and taunted and apparently […]

AMS conference report: day 4

By Briggs on January 24, 2008 • ( 2 Comments )

The AMS is re-issuing its statement on the necessity of using probability in forecasts. I am on the committee that is re-drafting, or, as they to say, “wordsmithing”, it. If you know […]

AMS conference report: day 3

By Briggs on January 23, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

More on hurricanes today. Jim Elsner, with co-author Tom Jagger, both from Florida State University started off by warning against using naive statistical methods on count data, such as hurricanes. Especially don’t […]

AMS conference report: day 2

By Briggs on January 22, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The convention center in New Orleans is impossibly overcrowded; the last time I saw lanes of people so thick was at the Ann Arbor Arts Fair many years ago. And I heard, […]

Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy

By Briggs on January 21, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

This post was supposed to be titled, “Conference Report: Day 1,” because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New Orleans. But […]

National Post says statisticians needed too

By Briggs on January 19, 2008 • ( 7 Comments )

Canada’s National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the American Meteorological […]

Great graph of religious majority of each county

By Briggs on January 18, 2008 • ( 2 Comments )

Graph is here.

Statisticians global warming plea: don’t forget about us!

By Briggs on January 17, 2008 • ( 8 Comments )

Who doesn’t love to read about statistics and statisticians? That’s a rhetorical question, my friends, so don’t bother answering. But I will allude to an answer, by telling you that I begin […]

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