stats-jokes

More useless statistics

August 22, 2011 | richierocks

Over at the ExploringDataBlog, Ron Pearson just wrote a post about the cases when means are useless. In fact, it’s possible to calculate a whole load of stats on your data and still not really understand it. The canonical dataset for demonstrating this (spoiler alert: if you are doing ... [Read more...]

useR2011 highlights

August 18, 2011 | richierocks

useR has been exhilarating and exhausting. Now it’s finished, I wanted to share my highlights. 10. My inner twelve year old schoolgirl swooning and fainting with excitement every time I chatted with a member of R-core. 9. Patrick Burns declaring that his company consists of himself and his two cats. And ... [Read more...]

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