For a JavaScript-based project I’m working on, I need to be able to sample from a variety of probability distributions. There are ways to call R from JavaScript, but they depend on the server r...
https://statisticsblog.com/2015/10/15/random-samples-in-js-using-r-functions/
I’ve produced a pilot episode of a “Probability Podcast”. Please have a listen and let me know if you’d be interested in hearing more episodes. Thanks! The different approaches of Fermat ...
Randomness – Probability = Chance Chance – Randomness = Fate Fate + God = Predestination Probability + Epistemology = Types of Randomness Subjective Probability = Betting + Coherence Propensi...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/07/31/a-probability-cookbook/
Just added to my Big Bright Green Manifesto Machine. You might need to read this through a couple times; it’s a difficult concept since it lives in a collective blind spot for us: Doing ethics ...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/07/01/morality-needs-probability-manifesto-addendum/
In this post I’ll be discussing the ideas presented in The Half-Life of Facts, by Samuel Arbesman. The book argues that facts, which we often take to be iron-clad, unchanging laws of the univer...
My recent look at JavaScript as a contender for statistical modeling got me thinking about the different methods used to create random variates. All computers algorithms create Type 1 randomness,...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/03/05/my-favorite-randomization-device/
“f you have performed any statistical analysis that is more complex than calculating the mean and the standard deviation, you should perform the same analysis on noise to make sure that whateve...
https://statisticsblog.com/2012/10/31/recommendation-of-the-week/
We often speak implicitly of different types of randomness but neglect to name or categorize them. Consider this post to be a kind of white paper or rough draft on the division of randomness into...
https://statisticsblog.com/2012/02/23/a-classification-scheme-for-types-of-randomness/
*or dangerously incomplete. I’ve just started reading Against the Gods: The remarkable Story of Risk, a book by Peter Bernstein that’s been high on my “To Read” list for a while. I suspec...
https://statisticsblog.com/2011/12/03/the-first-thing-you-learned-about-probability-is-wrong/
Chances are you’ve already heard about the Monty Hall problem. I wouldn’t be mentioning it at all, except that I keep reading descriptions of the problem that miss the absolutely critical poi...