Here is some good advice from Andrew Gelman about writing research articles.

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The Harvard stats blog has an interesting post about the distribution of swine flu cases by day.

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I was just alerted by an avid reader that SPSS has been purchased by IBM. Details in this article: “IBM’s purchase of SPSS ends era”.

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One of my professors does a lot of work with copulas, and today I was reading a poster presentation that he did where he cites this article, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street. The author, Felix Salmon, talks about how the Gaussian copula formula brought down wall street. Judging solely by his title, it seems as if we should blame the formula, and only the formula, for the collapse of the financial markets, rather than the bankers who egregiously misused the formula. But writers love making black and white issues out of the grayest of circumstances.

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Here is a paper by some professors ar Carnegie Mellon regarding the privacy (lack of privacy) of using social security nubmers as identifiers. Here is an article about the paper.

Disclaimer: SITW in no way endorese the stealing of SSNs. In fact, we don’t endorse stealing anything.

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Here are two good articles I received as links in my email recently.

Here is a recent article from Slate.com about golf stats and predicting winners. Good stuff.

And here is another Slate.com article about people lying about who they voted for in the last presidential election. They delve a little bit into sampling methodology.

It’s nice to see people usings stats…..in the wild.

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I know it’s been a while.

Here is an article about a poll gone wrong thanks to poor sampling design.

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I’m at NESS right now. Two people I was expecting to see here, both decided they weren’t coming because the weather was too nice. They are much smarter than I.

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This weeks correlation versus causation debacleis in the form of a letter to the editor from Lee Bradshaw and is brought to you by The Bernoulli Trial Blog.

Here is the original article.

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