If your experiment needs statistics, then you ought to have done a better experiment — Ernest Rutherford

Archive for April, 2007

Your Ideal Job?

Monday, April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Fun Stuff | No Comments »

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Expect the unexpected

Monday, April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Fun Stuff | 1 Comment »

From today's Telegraph: JPMorgan economist Helen Kevans said steady producer prices could be a sign that inflation is not rising fast enough for the Reserve Bank of Australia(RBA) to raise interest ... Read more..

Are You an Extreme Frequentist?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Foundations, Research/Theory | 4 Comments »

In other posts I have had a bit of a go at Bayesian zealotry. This post is about frequentist zealotry. I happen to believe that any method which has bad ... Read more..

The Perfect Instrument

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 Posted in Public Interest, Research/Theory | 2 Comments »

Untangling the web of dependencies between variables is the statisticians bread and butter - or it should be. But I must somewhat sheepishly admit that, until a few years ago, ... Read more..