Anyone who has ever taught has probably had this experience … you are reading a student paper and think, “I really don’t understand what he/ she is trying to say here.” Like most professors, you probably assume that in these situations, the students aren’t very clear on the concepts themselves. You’re probably…
It’s about time I got some recognition ! You can claim your own Love Stats award here. Careful, of undeserved awards, though. The last person who falsely claimed a Love Stats award had multicollinearity in his measures, a high VIF and died of complications of homoscedasticity. You have been warned.
I am tired of hearing that men in technical fields cannot meet women. Some stupid company even went so far as to say that they had hired hot women to work at their company so now they were going to have no problem attracting good programmers and engineers. This is stupid on so many levels….
I might as well give you my opinion of these two kinds of sin as long as, in a way, against each other we are pitting them, And that is, don’t bother your head about the sins of commission because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else you wouldn’t be committing them….
Completely unrelated to statistics, software or, anything really, my darling daughter number three is ranked in the top ten in the world in mixed martial arts. She has been nominated for female fighter of the year, which is decided in a scientific, objective manner by how many votes the nominees get on the Internet. She…
At the opening session, Randy Guard from SAS talked about making a difference. That sounded promising, but then the examples he gave were how analyses could be run on large databases of stock market data so much more quickly that instead of having market value overnight traders could get the data hourly. It sounded like…
The rocket scientist decided the most important use of his spare time was to pose Homer as an R6σ specialist. I was looking at this in my email and wondered why I ever decided to actually have a child with this person. Then, I looked at the books in the background. That’s why. If you…
Admit it, more than once you have thought to yourself, Wouldn’t it be convenient about now to have some mindless minions to do my bidding? I’d always thought if this whole statistical consulting thing didn’t work out, I could be an evil scientist. I mean, I already went to the trouble to get a Ph.D….
Getting an MRS degree is an effective strategy. You care about conditional distributions even if you don’t know what they are. When I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis in the 1970s, nearly all of my friends (and the vast majority…
<- On the lake shore last night It wasn’t until a banker sneeringly said to me, “So, you’re a lifestyle business.” That I realized lifestyle business was not, as I had mistakenly thought, people who called themselves “life coaches” , Mary Kay consultants, personal trainers, financial consultants or other businesses that are telling you what…