As should be clear from the timestamps on previous posts, this blog is now mostly in hibernation mode. Meanwhile, I have been writing and recording podcast episodes, sometimes about topics relat...
https://statisticsblog.com/2022/12/21/borel-cantelli-and-annihilation-events-and-more/
I happened to be travelling through Brussels, so I stopped by Ghent, the world hotspot for research into imprecise probabilities, and setup an interview with Gert de Cooman. Gert has been working...
Right now I’m working on a project that involves new ways to view units of content and the relationships between them. I’ve posted the comic I worked on, it has a number of stats references t...
https://statisticsblog.com/2014/06/12/a-new-way-to-visualize-content/
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/
Head down to your local hardware store and pick up a smoke detector. Pop off the cover and look inside. You’ll see a label that mentions Americium 241, a radioactive isotope. Put on your HEV su...
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...
Added one more point to my manifesto: “N” is always finite. Probability theory gives us many powerful limit theorems. These tell us what to expect, mathematically, as the number of trials goe...
Can’t take credit for this realization (I studied at an “Orthodox” shop), and the “Clarance” wishes to be anonymous, so send all karma points to your favorite (virtual) charity.
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/04/18/sudden-clarity-about-the-null-hypothesis/
Officially, unemployment in the US is declining. It’s fallen from a high of 9.1% a couple years ago, to 7.8% in recent months. This would be good news, if the official unemployment rate measure...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/03/27/minding-the-reality-gap/