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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Your Random Number Generator Dresses You Funny
I recently lead an intense course for incoming undergraduates who are going to concentrate in the sciences. I started the class by talking about sets, then moved into counting problems, followed by calculating probabilities, independence/dependence, unions & intersections, probability distributions, … Continue reading
Posted in Extracurricular, Statistics, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged fashions, i love plaid, random clothing generator, random number generator, randomly generated outfit, silly statistics
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Success!
I just got the news that a paper I have been working on with Sari Reisner, David Wypij, Bryn Austin, Heather Corliss, Margie Rosario, and Allegra Gordon got accepted for publication! They are a wonderful and talented group of people, … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT Health, publications
Tagged jubilation, published, splendid collaborators, success
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Adventures in Bathroom Solitaire
What are the odds? I get asked this by my non-Stats friends from time to time. They usually don’t expect me to actually go to my thinking place (my thinking place deserves its own blog post) and calculate the odds. … Continue reading
Posted in Extracurricular, Statistics, Teaching
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Binomial Distribution, Card Games, Fun
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Extracurricular activity
I recently read in Inside Science that physicists had applied network analytic tools to discover whether three classic myths: Beowulf, the Iliad, and Tain Bo Cuailnge, were based in real life events (Here is the original article). In a project that … Continue reading
Posted in Extracurricular, Literature, Networks, Statistics, Uncategorized
Tagged Comparative Literature, Fun with Networks, Procrastination, Social Network Analysis, Tales of the City
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