Statistics – Page 161 – William M. Briggs

On The Uselessness Of Lie Detector (And Medical) Screenings, And The Ames Spy Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8BUxVRwFY This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Have you seen the television series The Assets? Dramatization of the Sandy Grimes-Jeanne…

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How’d We Do On Our 2014 Predictions?

This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Time to tally. As has become our tradition, each New Year's Eve we see…

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Monty Hall And This Video Prove Probability Is Measure Of Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-I0bAuEUE This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. This post is really an excuse to highlight a cute video that's being…

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Improper Language About Priors

Suppose you decided (almost surely by some ad hoc rule) that the uncertainty in some thing (call it y) is best quantified by a normal distribution with central parameter θ…

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I Also Declare The Bayesian vs. Frequentist Debate Over For Data Scientists

I stole the title, adding the word "also", from an article by Rafael Irizarry at Simply Stats (tweeted by Diego Kuonen). First, brush clearing. Data scientists. Sounds like galloping bureaucratic…

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Podcast: Peer Review, Bob & Ray Do Statistics, Academic Calls For Killing Of (Post-Birth) Babies

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_12dec2014_0006.mp3[/podcast] Show Notes Wired's PubPeer article. PubPeer.com itself. PubPeer's discussion of "Macroscopic Observability of Spinorial Sign Changes under 2π Rotations". Bob and Ray can be found at, inter alia, the…

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On The Attribution Of A Single Event To Climate Change

Rained yesterday here in the city of cities. Must be because of climate change, right? Hey. The climate did change and it did rain. What more evidence do you want?…

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The Philosophy Of Rock Paper Scissors

Way my dad and I used to play is that when somebody won they got to grab the hand of the loser and then, with the fore- and middle-fingers only,…

John McKeon on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 19, 2025
Uncle Mike's comment deserves some sort of award. Completely off topic: https://blog.bracha.org is an novel new blog platform written in…
Cookie on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 17, 2025
Could the figure be reduced through incentives. A raisin drops down a shute when a word is produced? Or will…
gamecockjerry on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 17, 2025
1. My selection for this year's dead pool is Nancy Pelosi. 2. Trump begins deporting criminal illegal aliens, but falls…
John Pate on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 17, 2025
Given the shenigans around the attempt to engineer The Great Reset by the powers that be I suspect we should…
Brian (bulaore ) on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 16, 2025
Hey Briggs Some monkies ain't typing at all. What gives? While I'm munching on chicharrones and enjoying the afternoon, I…