First, and most strongly, probability need not have anything to do with data. For example, we can compute a value for the probability that “Matt wears a hat” given the assumed evidence […]
The Purpose Of All Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day5
Combinatorics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 4
I often use this example, last night given as homework: if you have a bottle of bourbon, one of scotch, and another of beer, how many ways can you pour a tasting? […]
Chain Of Argument. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 3
One thing can be proven with near certainty: do not stay up late the night before you must write an article on a subtle philosophical topic. I cannot prove that such a […]
Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the pile and […]
Randomness And Mysticism. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 2
Last night was spent at the storied Chapter House, for our annual first-night ceremony of Deliberate Numbness Induction, much needed after eight straight hours of unmitigated statistical theory. The only weakness to […]
The Nature Of Probability And Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 1
Ithaca was once voted the “Most Enlightened City.” I can’t say whether this is true, but I can tell you that the Cornell’s Statler hotel’s refrigerator contain a placard, which reads SUSTAINABILITY […]
Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0
Two Weeks Beginning tomorrow, and lasting a semisolid two weeks, will be my class at Cornell. A Masters “How To” in statistics, directed towards MBA-like personages. An impossible task. No subject of […]
Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?
Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last year statistics […]
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