For quite some time now, Kobi (who's just turned 4) has been kind of obsessed with Monster University. In fact, all he really cares about is one particular scene in which, as part of the "scare games", the monsters have to run through a corridor while ...
I've just spent a little over one hour to sort out my registration, travel and accommodation for the upcoming ISBA conference, later this year in Sardinia $-$ well, I say "sort out"... I think most of the details have been sorted out, so fingers crosse...
Later this week, I'll escape the cold British winter and flee to the even colder Canadian winter (-13 Celsius, I think!), to be in Toronto for a few days $-$ I suppose I'm going to need a lot more than a scarf...Anyway, I've been invited by Petros, so ...
To continue with the weirdest week in terms of emails, I have received one today that says: Dear Dr. Baio,I represent XXX (an imprint of YYY). We are looking to publish books in aviation that are scientific, academic or professional in natur...
Today I've received an email inviting me to submit a paper to a scientific journal (it doesn't really matter what journal it is, or whether or not my own work is actually relevant for them). I looove the way they've addressed to me, though. I think tha...
Earlier today I've seen this post about Frank Wilcoxon's work on non-parametric statistics, on the Significance website. I've only very recently become involved in using some non-parametric methods (notably for our work on the EVPPI...
I've been told of a nice review of BMHE in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, by Patrick Graham. I was very pleased by the review. Particularly about a couple of bits. One, for example, saysA general strength of the book is its ancho...
The American Statistical Association have shared this picture on their Facebook page $-$ I think the quote is brilliant!
As Marta is heading to a conference, XY and I will spend a couple of days at home alone. Hopefully that won't end up like in the picture here...
This is me kind of whining $-$ although I do have some positive (and I think I'm right in whining).First off: chapeau to the iHEA local organisers at Bocconi University in Milan! I think they've done an incredible job $-$ I think iHEA staff do help and...
