Statistics – Page 231 – William M. Briggs

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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Doctors For Disaster Preparedness Talk

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 Isnâ€™t: Heat Waves and Nine Feet Tall Men: Part II

McKibben's Folly Suppose it is true that we have E = "A six-sided object, just one side of which is labeled 6, and when tossed only one side will show."…

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

Probability is screwy, and we statisticians do a horrible, rotten job of teaching it. The first thing students learn in normal statistics classes is about "measures of central tendency" or…

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Men Nine Feet Tall And Bayes Theorem

The OFloinn put up a most readable and recommended essay When is Weather Really "Climate"? and in one of the comments a reader named Gyan in part said: Many economists…

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The Decline And Increase Of Mainstream Religions In The USA: With Pictures!

The Episcopals, like many other old guard protesting religions, are in trouble. Jay Akasie tells us that at this year's annual conclave, the Episcopalian leadership had their most serious discussions…

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Certainty & Uncertainty: Logical Probability & Statistics

Since we have spent the weekend with these matters, I thought it appropriate to include the first part of the Introduction to the new book I've been working on. It…

Paul Fischer on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 10, 2025
The claim that 'pandering woke whites' drive black crime has some truth, but the real culprit is AFDC. It created…
Paul Fischer on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 10, 2025
A homocide detective I know told me to multiply by 10. So....Blacks attack whites about seven times more than whites…
Cary Cotterman on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 10, 2025
The best solution, of those that are possible, would be more robust policing, arrest for all crimes, no leniency for…
Cary Cotterman on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 10, 2025
"We have had some success in eliminating a handful of the worst woke offenders, but the risk is these gains…
Uncle Mike on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 10, 2025
All of the above have been tried and failed. You left out genocide the Blacks via abortion, which is happening…