Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts: A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This one came about because I was searching for a data set on horror films (don’t…

Unfortunately, I missed it, but StatsInTheWild officially hit the 20,000 views all-time three days ago on June 17, 2012.  Congratulations to me. Cheers.

Originally posted on Xi'an's Og: Last night, my dear friend George Casella passed away, after a long illness he had fought with his usual determination and optimism. Having known George for 25 years, I am devastated… He was a great father / friend / collaborator / researcher / teacher / editor / runner, and, above…

Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts: Here’s something I started to write a few months ago, but never got around to finish it off. Neil Charles over at Wallpapering Fog has just written an excellent post about the growing importance of R and Tableau to the modern day analyst. Although not as old in the tooth as…

WordPress collects search engine terms that lead to their blogs.  So if someone searched “Awesome statistics blog”, was served a link to my blog, and then clicked through, wordpress would let me know. My search terms for today are  “statistics about harry potter”, “lola and eric real name”, and “eric de facto spouse”.  Wonderful. Cheers.

Those mean psychologists, making fun of dodgy research! Cheers.

Originally posted on The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective: By Ben Blatt In 1964, Mosteller and Wallace published Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist. The paper used statistical analysis to try to determine if James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, or John Jay was the author of the unaccredited essays that were part of The Federalist Papers. They…

Originally posted on 3σ → Left: Math teachers have been using the “German Tank Problem” for awhile to teach estimators. It goes something like this. The Allies capture five German tanks. Suppose that the serial numbers on the tanks are 15, 23, 59, 83, and 109. Provide an estimate of the number of tanks that…

Originally posted on God plays dice: There are currently 174 books on my Amazon wishlist that I could order directly from Amazon. (My wishlist has a total of 195 books, but 21 are only available from other sellers.) Total price is approximately $3,549 (I rounded all prices to whole dollars), for a mean of approximately…

What a great quote: “As an employer I want the best prepared and qualified employees. I could care less if the source of their education was accredited by a bunch of old men and women who think they know what is best for the world. I want people who can do the job. I want…