A very special package that I am rather excited about arrived in the mail recently. The package contained a set of 6-sided dice. These dice, however, don’t have the standard numbers one to six on their faces. Instead, they have assorted numbers between zero and nine. Here’s the exact configuration: Aside from maybe making for […]
The special issue of CHANCE on George Casella’s books has now appeared and it contains both my earlier post on George passing away and reviews of several of his books, as follows: Andrew Gelman on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R Bill Strawderman on Statistical Inference Jean-Louis Foulley on Variance Components Larry Wasserman on Theory [...]
Just saw this nice review of R for dummies. And thought after this afternoon class that my students in the simulation course at Paris-Dauphine could clearly benefit from reading it! They in fact had a terrible time simulating a truncated normal distribution by accept-reject. As they could not get the notion of normalising constants… (Yes, [...]
Among the books I received for review in CHANCE, here are some neither I nor my “usual suspects” had enough time or interest in to review: R Graphics (second edition) by Paul Murrell Biostatistics: A computing approach by Stewart Anderson Advanced Bayesian methods for medical test accuracy by Lyle Broemeling Introduction to Probability with Texas [...]
After a sunny weekend to unpack and unwind, I am now back to my normal schedule, on my way to Paris-Dauphine for an R (second-chance) exam. Except for confusing my turn signal for my wiper, thanks to two weeks of intensive driving in four Australian states!, things are thus back to “normal”, meaning that I [...]
Is probability mathematics or statistics? Probability is often taught alongside statistics, and it is a rather uneasy alliance. Mathematics teachers like probability. It behaves as a good mathematical topic should, and gives nice exact answers. But it also provides the … Continue reading →
