100 savvy sites on statistics
Online Math Degrees has a page of “100 savvy sites on statistics and quantitative analysis”. It has some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly ever heard of. The sites are divided into groups....
View ArticleThe AllTrials campaign
The AllTrials campaign is pushing for all data on drug trials to be made public — see the campaign statement. If the public has all the evidence rather than a biased selection of evidence, then it will...
View ArticleLiving it up with computational errors
How to have a better chance of a good outcome. Making mistakes There’s been a lot of talk recently about data analysis problems with spreadsheets. If you’ve not stuck your head out of your cave...
View ArticleThe joy of data analysis
Music and snow. Poke my eyes out Perhaps your immediate response is: “I’d rather poke my eyes out with a burning stick than do data analysis.” There’s a completely different reaction from a lot of...
View ArticleA statistical review of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman
I failed to find Kahneman’s book in the economics section of the bookshop, so I had to ask where it was. “Oh, that’s in the psychology section.” It should have also been in the statistics section. He...
View ArticleBlog recap of 2013
Posts by page views Interview with a forced convert to R from Matlab A first step towards R from spreadsheets Plot ranges of data in R A statistical review of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel...
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