I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been using twitter (Follow StatsInTheWild)a lot more for the smaller posts. Anyway, I’ve been preparing and studying for my general exam (you might call it a comprehenisive exam), and so I’ve been reading a lot about disclosure limitation, my disseration topic. In putting together a…

Here is an interesting article titled “The Great College Hoax” which was emailed to me by an avid reader. Here is an excerpt from the article: “College graduates will earn $1 million more than those with only a high school diploma, brags Mercy College radio ads running in the New York area. The $1 million…

I was reading thebernoullitrial blog and came across this link to an article in the Wall Street Journal about the best and worst jobs in the United States. Number 3! Cheers.

So, I was at Barnes and Noble today with a few hours to kill. I sat down and I started reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success. The further I read, the more it became clear to me that he wasn’t really talking about outliers. Also, since I have my qualifying exam…

Here is an article titled “Girls Gone Bad: Statistics Distort the Truth.” I think this is a misleading headline. Statistics don’t distort the truth; the misinterpretaion of statistics distorts the truth. Here are the two comments on the article from the site: The first from xpan09: “That’s true. Statistics should wait before announcing a rise…

Who’s excited for the 2010 Census? What? You’re not? Well let me ask you this then? How else are we supposed to know that there were 6,424 people living in Pondera County, Montana in 2000? How? I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to go door to door in 2010. Anyway, here is…

Well, it looks like I was wrong. In one of my posts from the beginning of the NFL playoffs, I spent quite some time complaining about how the Chargers and the Cardinals made the play-offs at 8 – 8 and 9 – 7, respectively. Looks like the Cardinals proved me wrong by making it all…

This link has a good graphical representation of just how much value has been lost by some major banks. Cheers.

Well, I’m done with my qualifying exam. I’ll know if I passed by late this week/early next week. Anyway, here is a short project that I did on factor analysis in November. Cheers. Introduction A major market index in the United States is the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Thirty large industrial companies stock prices contribute…