statistics

ASA recognizes some outstanding statistics bloggers: Nathan Yau, Andrew Gelman, and Kaiser Fung. How timely! Nathan and Kaiser were featured in questions in the 2010 Statistics Bowl, held at the Joint Statistical Meetings back in August, in Vancouver. (I should know, I wrote the questions!) Read more

Ethan Brown begins a series on Benford’s Law and working with it in R.  Stay tuned. Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more

Here’s a great example of a ruined experiment.  Easy rule of thumb:  whenever you’re working with human subjects, or (possibly) intelligent animal subjects, use double blinding. Read more

Will Briggs reviews an article critical of Mann’s "hockey stick" model of global temperature, and proposes a simpler model. Ed Wegman gave a talk at JSM 2010 which pointed out how an uncorrected principal components analysis gives a biased outcome that looks very much like the hockey stick. Read more

Nathan Yau is writing a series on the 7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs.  Here’s his first detailed exposition, Rule #1 Check the Data. Second one, Rule #2, Explain your encodings. Stay tuned for 6 5 more updates. Read more

Shawn Allen is teaching an online class in Data Visualization through the New York School of Visual Arts.  Here’s his latest lecture. Read more

IASRI has a Design of Experiments Server, loaded with examples.  Thanks, Bing! Read more

Check out this course introduction. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more

The Canadian government has decided to make their census "long form" survey voluntary to respect citizen’s privacy; the head of Statistics Canada resigns. Tip from Pollster.com.  (Did I mention they’re my favorite Democrats?) Read more

David Blackwell passed away on July 8.  “Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been,” he said. “I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.” Tip from Andrew Gelman.Update (25 Read more