David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: What’s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at American Conservative […]
Next prohibition: salt
Here is a question I added to my chapter on logic today. New York City “Health Czar” Thomas Frieden (D), who successfully banned smoking and trans fat in restaurants and who now […]
Paul Krugman drags out the “T” word again
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is calling for the heads of “deniers” again. In his “Betraying the Planet“, he says that anybody who doesn’t agree with his understanding on climate models […]
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Résumé I am a wholly independent writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School, a Statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a Meteorologist with the National Weather […]
Decision Calculator
This is just a rough prototype meant to be easy to play with inside a post. READ the help and guidebook! Suggestions for new canned examples welcome—the hard part is deriving historical […]
Homogenization of temperature series: Part V, The real Grand Finale
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Much of what we discussed—but not all—is in this picture. Right click and open it in a new […]
Results of Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
Before the 2009 season began, I developed a very simple predictive1 model based solely on each NFL team’s historical record. Here is what was said about the model: I used data from […]
Quirk’s: Telling the future from the past: predictive versus classical statistics
Today’s post is at Quirk’s, the well known trade journal and marketing research review. If you want to read the article on-line at Quirk’s, registration is required, but free. You can also […]
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