The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) are coming up in the first week of August in Vancouver. StatsInTheWild will be in attendance. Here are the StatsInTheWild suggestions for interesting talks to attend. Disclosure Limitation and Confidentiality: A New Approach to Protect Confidentiality for Census Microdata with Missing Values Yajuan Si, Duke University; Jerome P. Reiter, Duke…

I attended the New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) last Saturday, and I’ve been meaning to write about one of talks I saw. After lunch, I went to the Columbia section so I could see the talk about multiple imputation using chain equations. The MI talk was the second in the section, so I sat through…

StatsInTheWild NCAA Basketball top 25: (Boldindicates team is still in the NCAA tournament, italics indicate change from last week) 1. Kansas 0 2. Kentucky 0 3. Syracuse 0 4. West Virginia 0 5. Duke +2 6. Cornell NR 7. Kansas State +2 8. Purdue +5 9. New Mexico -3 10. Northern Iowa +13 11. Butler…

Apparently, you can use LaTeX in wordpress. Alright, he is a practice problem I was working on for my exam in two weeks. Let with where is a identity matrix and is a matrix of ones. Find the eigenvalues of . We seek such that where is the determinant of a matrix Now this is…

A good excerpt from this article, By Gary Kreps, Ph.D, and Rebecca Goldin, Ph.D, November 17, 2009: “Unlike the seasonal flu, H1N1 frequently attacks children. The CDC calculates that 179 flu-related pediatric deaths have occurred in the U.S since last April. Of these, one was due to the seasonal flu and 156 were due to…

Let me start by saying I’m not an expert on global warming. I’m absolutely sure the earth is getting warmer (think melting ice caps) and very sure that it is caused by humans (green house gases). But who knows. Remember, if someone yells their dissenting opinion loud enough, it becomes fact, right? Anyway, I’ve read…

Estimated County-Level Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity — United States, 2007. Also be sure to check out this very nice figure which shows the United States at the county level by rate of diabetes and obesity. It’s really striking in this figure just how centralized high levels of obesity are in the southeast and Appalachia.…

My friend emailed me this article this afternoon:Apples and Oranges in higher education. It’s all about the use and misuse of statistics in comparing the United State higher education system to other countries. Pretty interesting stuff. Cheers.

Here is some salary information about the statistics profession from amstat.org. Cheers.

Prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution, many of the founders wrote a series of papers supporting the ratification of the Constitution. These papers came to be known as the Federalist papers. When they were written, they were published anonymously. Years later several of the authors claimed their work. However, many of these…