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Why I will never fly US Air

You will have heard by now that US Air has offered the Hudson crash survivors a full year's worth of upgrades for their trouble. "Sorry you nearly died. Here's a…
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I’m thinking of turning to crime

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial…
Posted inStatistics

Help finding paper.

Two days ago a report appeared in various places announcing the results of a new paper tying malaria to "global warming." I'd like to find the paper but I haven't…
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Some pieces you should see

Wired article on copulas Reader Scott Bury forwarded this article from Wired on the probability function that many used to quantify the risk of certain financial instruments. You can think…
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Mini book reviews

This is mostly catch up...I'm spending my free time getting ready for a talk on the 15th... A History of the Vikings Gwyn Jones Oxford University Press Recommendation: read If…