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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Getting an edge on “battleship”
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
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Tagged Chance Magazine, Fun, Games, Simulations, statistics
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Bald Associates
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
Graduate Student Statistics Teaching Inventory
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
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Tagged statistics, Teaching
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Capital Bikeshare Data Release
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
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Tagged Capital Bikeshare, Data, data release, Fun with Networks, statistics, Teaching
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