Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Self-publishing to the rescue

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The new Coursera course by Princeton Professor Mung Chiang was so popular that Amazon and the publisher ran out of copies of the textbook b...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Language and psychological state: explain or predict?

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Quite a few of my social science colleagues think that predictive modeling is not a kosher tool for theory building. In our 2011 MISQ paper ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Statistical considerations and psychological effects in clinical trials

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I find it illuminating to read statistics "bibles" in various fields, which not only open my eyes to different domains, but also p...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011

Visualizing time series: suppressing one pattern to enhance another pattern

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Visualizing a time series is an essential step in exploring its behavior. Statisticians think of a time series as a combination of four comp...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

No correlation -> no causation?

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I found an interesting variation on the "correlation does not imply causation" mantra in the book  Applied Multiple Regression/Cor...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Discovering moderated relationship in the era of large samples

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I am currently visiting the Indian School of Business (ISB) and enjoying their excellent library. As in my student days, I roam the bookshe...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

Short data mining videos

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I just discovered a short set of videos (currently 35) on different data mining methods on the StatSoft website . This accompanies their nea...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Shaking up the statistics community

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A new book is gaining emotional reactions for the normally calm statistics community (no pun intended): The Black Swan: The Impact of the Hi...