Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself —  Winston Churchill

Archive for March, 2007

Measuring Media Slant

Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in Public Interest, Research/Theory | 4 Comments »

Econometricians are often pretty smart at thinking up ways to measure things. I recently attended a seminar by Professor Matthew Gentzkow from University of Chicago Graduate School of ... Read more..

An enigma in evaluating DNA Evidence

Friday, March 16th, 2007 Posted in Probability, Public Interest, Science | 3 Comments »

DNA evidence of a match between a suspect and a sample at the crime scene are often presented as evidence in court. Roughly speaking, if there is a probability "p" ... Read more..

The Optimiser’s Curse

Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Bayesian, Research/Theory | No Comments »

I have recently come across an interesting paper in the journal Management Science which rings a few bells for me. It concerns decision analysis and how well we can estimate ... Read more..