Divisional Round Ravens (51.84%) over Titans, 23-22 Chiefs (75.8%) over Texans, 33-18 Packers (52.41%) over Seahawks, 26-24 49ers (60.57%) over Eagles, 26-21

Here is my tentative syllabus for my radical redesign.  The structure of the course follows roughly the 9 goals put forth in the GAISE report.  Please comment. Oh also this: I’m getting rid of slides.  I’ll have a marker for board work and a computer to do the analysis and simulations.  But no slides! Week…

Here are my first set of thoughts on my “radical redesign”. More thoughts: I think we need to introduce non-parametric statistics in intro stats.  I basically had no idea about non-parametric statistics until I taught a course called non-parametric statistics in my first semester as a professor at Loyola.  I’m totally sold on them.  I…

Well, I’m probably going to get tenure in the Spring, which is a fairly big accomplishment.  And it’s the end of a decade.  So I’ve decided to look back on some people who have had a positive influence on me in my life.  Here is a VERY INCOMPLETE list, with amusing anecdotes. Roughly in chronological…

I need a new example of Simpson’s Paradox.  Anyone got any ideas? I think we need to talk much more about sampling methods in intro stats courses.  I don’t know how much other people talk about this, but I usually mention it in like 15 minutes in one class and then we never talk about…

Wild Card Round Texans (55.95%) over Bills, 23-20 Patriots (56.47%) over Titans, 24-20 Saints (65.16%) over Vikings, 28-20 Seahawks (53.52%) over Eagles, 24-22 Divisional Round Ravens (69.03%) over Texans, 29-20 Chiefs (65.5%) over Patriots, 28-21 Saints (60.61%) over Packers , 28-22 49ers (64.6%) over Seahawks, 28-21 Conference Championship Games 49ers (51.52%) over Saints, 25-24 Ravens…

I don’t think Kanye is a very good rapper.  Other people disagree with me.  So I said I would name 100 rappers better than Kanye.  Here is my list: 1. Jay-Z 2. 2-Pac 3. Common 4. Eminem 5. Biggie 6. Nas 7-16. All of the Wu Tang clan 17-19. Beastie Boys 20-21. Outkast 22. Will-I-Am…

Here is a fun plot that I made showing number of wins vs probability (according to fivethirtyeight.com).  The 7-6 Bears, who just beat the 6-7 Cowboys last night, are probably going to miss the playoffs.  The, let me repeat this, 6-7 Cowboys are probably going to HOST a home playoff game.  I love it.  What…

Here.  This is what I think will happen.