Category: Academia
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I just found this sitting in my drafts folder. It’s from May: New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll Cheers.
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The Higgs Boson explained by PhD Comics The question they seem to keep coming back to is: “What’s in the data?” Statistics seems to be everywhere… Cheers.
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I was recently reading Gelman’s blog, and he wrote a post about this: Patents Aren’t Only for Engineers. Apparently, some actuary received a patent for statistical sampling. The author (is that what they are called?) of the patent, Jay Vadiveloo, is a mathematics professor in residence at the University of Connecticut, and he is quoted in the article as saying:…
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The Five Misconceptions About Teaching Math and Science Cheers.
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Here is an excerpt from Slate.com‘s lexicon valley: Is it possible that your writing style is identifiably unique? In the late 1800s, a Polish philosopher named Wincenty Lutosławski imagined a “future science of stylometry,” whereby the singular style of an author could be quite literally measured. In such a future, controversies over authorship would be resolved not by…
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Massive confusion about a study that purports to show that exercise may increase heart risk Cheers.
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When I did my Master’s degree at WPI, Erik was a second year student who went on to do a Ph.D. at, I believe, the University of New Mexico. He helped me tremendously in my first year in graduate school and always seemed to have good advice (as well as “fake” good advice usually telling…
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Advice on writing research articles Cheers.
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I hate impact factor…. A statistical research project: Weeding out the fraudulent citations Cheers.
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Traveling Salesman Art Cheers.
Stats in the Wild 