In this week’s Brief, the second in our series on statistical thinking, we discuss WWII convoys; our course spotlight is July 10 – Aug 7: Spatial Statistics for GIS Using R See you in class! Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Statistical Thinking 2 Safety in Numbers – Calculating Probabilities for Convoys Early 1942 wasContinue reading “June 30: Statistics in Practice”
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Safety in Numbers – Calculating Probabilities for Convoys
Polytomous
June 23: Statistics in Practice
In this week’s Brief, the first in a Statistical Thinking series, we look at how people think about rare events. Our spotlight is on: July 3 – 31: Introductory Statistics (another session starts July 31) See you in class! Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Rare Event Syndrome Several years ago, National Public RadioContinue reading “June 23: Statistics in Practice”
Student Spotlight: Angelina Salinas
Meet Angelina Salinas, Data Analyst at Almacenes SIMAN Angelina Salinas started working for the retail store Almacenes Siman as a purchasing planner and, a couple of years later, got interested in data science and started to learn R. Shortly afterwards, the business intelligence group at Almacenes Siman transformed into a business analytics group and theyContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Angelina Salinas”
Historical Spotlight: Iris Dataset
Can you identify this wildflower, photographed in a Massachusetts field? And also identify its significance in the history of statistics? This is the Blue Flag Iris, also called the Veriscolor Iris, and it is one of three Iris species that make up the famous (in statistics) Iris dataset. This dataset consisted of five values for each ofContinue reading “Historical Spotlight: Iris Dataset”
Rare Event Syndrome
June 16: Statistics in Practice
In this week’s brief we feature a guest blog on Ethical Data Science; our course spotlight is: July 17 – Aug 14: Logistic Regression See you in class! Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Ethical Data Science As data science has evolved into AI, the intimate connection between the scientist and the data isContinue reading “June 16: Statistics in Practice”
Instructor Spotlight: Joseph Hilbe
Ethical Data Science
June 12: Statistics in Practice
In this Brief, we visit the issue of “statistical arbitrage” in financial markets, and spotlight two courses: June 12 – July 10: Financial Risk Modeling (today) July 10 – Aug 7: Spatial Statistics for GIS Using R See you in class! P.S. Our newest course, Analyzing and Modeling Coronavirus Data, also starts June 12 (today)Continue reading “June 12: Statistics in Practice”
Statistical Arbitrage
June 2: Statistics in Practice
Fear of catching Covid-19 dominates the world, so this week we briefly review how humans think about probabilities, in the context of Covid-19. Prior beliefs figure heavily in probability calculations, so our course spotlight is on: July 3 – 31: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics See you in class! – Peter Bruce P.S. Our new course, AnalyzingContinue reading “June 2: Statistics in Practice”