Statistics at UTSA

…a new textbook on mathematical sociology. Tip from the Social Science Statistics Blog. Read more

One of the public relations gimmicks used to promote UTSA’s Quality Enhancement Program, Quantiative Scholarship, was a contest for promotional videos. Is it just me, or is drinking the QEP Kool-Aid an unfortunate metaphor? Tip from UTSA Today. Read more

JMP 8 has an interactive tool for making graphs, called Graph Builder. (Click it, the video is neat.)  Wow, am I ever glad we’ve been promoting JMP 8 here at UTSA!  And check out the JMP Blog. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more

Andrew Gelman has an interesting post discussing Xi-Liao Meng’s recent article in the American Statistician, "Desired and Feared—What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50 Years?" Xi-Liao addresses the challenge for UTSA’s new Quantitative Scholarship project head on: statistics, as a discipline, is now both desired and feared.With this new status comes a Read more

Here’ some good advice for statisticians besieged by students who want help.  I’m starting my annotated bibliography, now!. Read more

This bit of statistical junk food about the relationship between GPAs and Facebook participation has become a topic of discussion here this week.  It’s been put forward as a sort of case study, for which I’ve proposed an assessment question: Why did Dr Karpinsky publish such a lightweight finding in a refereed journal and get Read more

Looks like I just got a new tool to introduce my statistics students to Mathematica: “Hands-on Start to Mathematica” screencast. Tip from Michael Morrison at the Wolfram Blog. Read more

Life imitates art at the card table.  New readings for my statistics students.  Perhaps they could learn to play Old Sledge. Read more

Over at the Daily Beast, Zac Bissonnette raves about "Why college is a waste of money." Looking at it from the other end of the lectern, I agree completely.  But his numbers are a little vague, so how’s about refining the estimate?  A quick check of websites for UTSA, UT Austin, and TCU reveal that Read more

Judith Gardner, one of my greatest friends on campus, and the inspiration for a formal writing program in statistics, has passed away.  She leaves a void that will not soon be filled. Read more