Still waiting for the passport and have to pay the bill for the symposium/hotel somehow, but in addition to the travel arrangements (”Flight 68, departing for the rest of the world”) I now have a scheduled time for my 25-minute talk on PoliticWiki et al. It’s a nice spot for me, since I don’t have [...]
Stats Hack #2
Next up from O’Reilly’s Statistics Hacks is: Describe the World Using Just Two Numbers. This is an explanation of something called the Central Limit Theorem.
Amongst all of the chi-squares and alphas, one of the few concepts I know very well is the mean … the average of a set up numbers, derived by adding up [...]