Monthly Archives: August 2012

Your Random Number Generator Dresses You Funny

Posted on August 29, 2012 by milesott

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 →

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Success!

Posted on August 16, 2012 by milesott

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 →

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Adventures in Bathroom Solitaire

Posted on August 15, 2012 by milesott

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 →

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Extracurricular activity

Posted on August 10, 2012 by milesott

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 →

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