Here is an interesting article from the UK: “Numbers up: The truth about statistics” And in the spirit of correlation of the week, here is a good excerpt from that article: “Toothless post-menopausal women are three times as prone to hypertension as those with teeth” This news, reported in the respected journal Hypertension, might have…

I was watching the show “Predator X” on the History Channel tonight. Apparently, they discovered this fossil of an enormous aquatic predator. It’s pretty awesome. Here is a description of the bite force of this predator: (from here) “At St Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park in Florida , Dr. Hurum assisted evolutionary biologist Dr.…

Check out page 35 of the old issue of Chance magazine which has an article talking about the best way to pick NCAA basketball teams to win your office pool. Of course this probably would have been more of a help if I had posted it five days ago, but it’s still interesting. And you…

So I’m back from ENAR and back from spring break. I’ve ben greeted back to grad school by a midtern on Friday night from 6-8pm. What a fun time for a midterm! Let me first start by saying that San Antonio is awesome. The river walk is great. I at at two great Mexican restaurants…

I was sitting in my office last semester and this really tall guy walked past my door. I kind of did a double take he was so tall. A few seconds later he came back and knocked on my door. He asked if my office mate was there so he could hand in some homework.…

I’m sitting at Bradley International Airport waiting for a flight to Raleigh/Durham. Then I’ll hop on a connector to Memphis, followed by another connector to San Antonio, Texas. What’s in San Antonio, you might ask? The Alamo? Tim Duncan? Well yes, but why would I post that on a stats blog? The reason I am…

This isn’t really “statistics” or “in the wild” since it’s a problem from an advanced probability class I am taking, but it’s a neat problem so you’ll just have to live with. Here is the game: I get a die and the opponent gets a die. (These dice are not necessarily numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6. The sides…

I was reading the fantastic blog The Bernoulli Trial today, (the Stock Market Seismometer is very interesting.) and I stumbled onto one of his links which brought me to The Mr Science Show. All of the posts are very interesting, but one post seemed particularly relevant to this page. One of the topics I have…

Having trouble dressing yourself and love statistics? Solve your problems with T-Shirts with witty statistics slogans from SassyStatistics.com (The link was sent in to statsinthewild by avid reader Kevin S. Bagge.) My favorite would be: “One way or ANOVA, I’m gonna getcha.” (Note: I am in no way financially involved with SassyStatistics.com) (Note: If Sassy…

I’m currently working on a systematic literature review of statistical issues of privacy. One of the papers I was reading today was from the Census. This paper discusses how how the Census maintains the privacy of individuals when it releases microdata to the public. (I’ve been reading some papers which propose methods that are much…