How do I count thee? Let me count the ways? by Jerry Tuttle    In Major League Baseball, a player who hits 50 home runs in a single season has hit a lot of home runs. Suppose I want to count the number of 50 homer seasons by team, and also the number ...

Between ages two and four, most children can count up to at least ten. If you ask your child, "What number comes next after 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?" they will probably say "6." But to math nerds, any number can be the next number in a finite sequence. I like -14. Given a sequence of ...

by Jerry Tuttle    In Major League Baseball, a player who hits 50 home runs in a single season has hit a lot of home runs. Suppose I want to count the number of 50 homer seasons by team, and also the number of 50 homer seasons by New York Yankees. (I will count ...

      In doing decision tree classification problems, I have often graphed the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve. The True Positive Rate (TPR) is on the y-axis, and the False Positive Rate (FPR) is on the x-axis. Tr...

     “Those who can, do;  those who can’t – use computer simulation.”  This quote was inspired by playwright George Bernard Shaw.  Computer simulation is a powerful tool that attempts to reproduce the behavior of some real-world system by sampling from one or more probability distributions.  It can help explain and illustrate ...