Monthly Archives: April 2013

Getting an edge on “battleship”

Posted on April 23, 2013 by milesott

If you have youngsters in your life, you may have had the experience of playing different games of skill and chance with them.  And though you may be taller, have many more years of experience to draw from, and are … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Getting an edge on “battleship”

Bald Associates

Posted on April 20, 2013 by milesott

A recent meta-analysis in BMJ on the association between baldness and coronary heart disease has gotten a lot of press (see NYT and Boston Globe).  Looking at the comments section for these articles you can see that some readers are jokingly conflating this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Bald Associates

Graduate Student Statistics Teaching Inventory

Posted on April 19, 2013 by milesott

Andrew Gelman’s blog links to this survey of graduate students’ experiences TA’ing or teaching statistics courses. If you fit the bill, consider filling it out. It only took me about 5 minutes and will add to research on statistics education. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Graduate Student Statistics Teaching Inventory

Capital Bikeshare Data Release

Posted on April 15, 2013 by milesott

The Simply Statistics Blog‘s “Sunday Statistics Roundups” are always an interesting read.  These posts tend to bring together links about statistics in the news, contests, conferences, and also data sets.  This week’s roundup had a link to a really interesting data … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun with Statistics, Networks, Statistics, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Capital Bikeshare Data Release