Prior Analytics
6 November 2008, 16:51 UTCGelman on the Election
Gelman has a nice quick analysis of election results, suggesting that state-by-state there was overall a uniform blue shift of about 4% (+- 3%) compared to 2004. However, since 2000, the youth vote has become increasingly blue shifted:
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9 October 2008, 3:32 UTCRail vs. Bus
Mostly a convenient place to bookmark items relevant to the debate. If I keep up, this will change periodically.
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5 August 2008, 12:12 UTCBicycle Helmets & Pedestrian Casualties
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9 July 2008, 14:58 UTCReston to GMU Bike Route -- Updated
1 July 2008, 21:45 UTCCorrelation & Causation
18 June 2008, 20:38 UTCThe Crowd Within
16 June 2008, 19:40 UTCAudiophiles, Significance Tests, Greenspun's Tenth Rule
10 June 2008, 13:27 UTCDemocracy
13 March 2008, 0:24 UTCKrugman on Interstellar Trade
6 March 2008, 1:33 UTCScience & Magic
29 November 2007, 1:58 UTCFixed Links
10 October 2007, 16:41 UTCAviation collision experiments
22 September 2007, 14:52 UTCPay for free software
A great little post on Decision Science News.
A gem that packs lots of great quips together.
1. Greenspun's finding that people can tell high-quality audio cables from low-quality ones, but prefer high-quality ones only about 15 times out of 28. (See recent amusing post by njh, and coda.
2. To analyze his results, Greenspun rederived stats tests because "status books are virtually impossible to understand" and "I was able to explain what I was doing using simple probability laws that most of the readers would have understood." Similar reactions are common to the nice book Bayesian Statistics. Math people prefer probability.
3. Snarky programming quips.
Thanks to Statistical Modeling from whence I found it.