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 [...]
Stats Hack #2
Stats Hack #1
We skipped three hours of Pirates this past weekend to make a Borders run. I picked up Statistics Hacks by O’Reilly. The “Hacks” series is like a higher-brow, geekier version of Statistics for Dummies, which sat nearby on the shelf. What I liked about it most was the bite-sized concepts it presents. There are 75 [...]
Everything feeling somehow wrong?
Having one of those days when nothing makes sense? This mirror site won’t help, but it’s amusing. Search for anything, just type it backwards.
The boys’ Aunt Meg will have no trouble negotiating it though, as she spent most of her high school classes practicing writing backward out of boredom. That’s all I’ll say about [...]
Thesis Proposal
Taking a cue from Matt’s summer musings, it is time for me to talk a bit about the next major project in my life: the doctoral thesis.
The Peter’s book I have sloooooowly been reading this summer (”Doctor prep”) is filled with useful information about prepping for the Ph.D. program. The first third of the book [...]
Is Macromedia trying to be Microsoft?
I threw in the towel this afternoon. It’s been a long week already, and life is piling on from all directions. So when I wanted to open a text file and do the same things I did just fine in HomeSite on my old windows laptop, Dreamweaver convinced me it is a Word wannabe.
The [...]
Before Buck, there was Minnie
Busy as a bee, I haven’t had much chance to peruse the sports section of the web much, but I managed a couple minutes this morning and found this report on Negro League star and former Cubs manager/scout Buck O’Neil getting one more professional at bat. The Kansas City T-Bones of the Northern League have [...]
Oh, for the love of God
Read this and cringe.