In no way is this article meant to be complete. It is more in the way of musings—a crude introduction—so that we can see where to go. Is the universe a computer? […]
Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their own good. […]
Feigned Surprises of the Week: Journolist and Our New Tax
Said the main-stream journalist on Journolist, “If they of the right wing don’t behave and treat our Golden Boy properly, we’ll call them racists. It matters not whom we pick to cast […]
A Bust—I mean must—Read; Or, An Evolution in Bra Sizes
“Excuse me, miss. Would you care to participate in science?” Sometimes being a statistician is enviable. In a flash of scientific brilliance, Australian statisticians have just completed a massive study of measuring […]
M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson, and John Wayne
Part II of the Two-Envelope problem was not too friendly, so here’s something that is. Via HotAir, I came across the site Marginal Revolution, in which was featured a graph showing the […]
The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part II
Read Part I first. We are in the peek first game here. The distribution of N When X is odd, and all X are discrete, we know we should always switch regardless […]
The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part I
Another probability “paradox”, the two-envelope problem1, goes like this: Before you are two envelopes, A and B. One of them contains $X and the other $2X (which is equivalent to $Y/2 and […]
St Petersburg Paradox; Games and Statistical Decisions; RIP David Blackwell
David Blackwell, who died two weeks ago, was one of the first mainstream statisticians to “go Bayesian.” And for that and his unique skill in clearly explaining difficult ideas, we owe him […]
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