A reader sends me to Adam Obeng, who did the dirty work deconstructing a set of charts by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on his blog. Here's an example of these charts: Aside from the sneaker chart, they...
A reader sends me to Adam Obeng, who did the dirty work deconstructing a set of charts by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on his blog. Here's an example of these charts: Aside from the sneaker chart, they...
An announcement for an Icelandic meeting next September, meeting I would have loved to attend (darn!)… This meeting is sponsored by the BayesComp session, of course!!! We are pleased to announce that the University of Iceland will host the 3rd Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications (LGM). The workshop will be [...]
Needless to say, it is with great pleasure I am back in beautiful Padova for the workshop Recent Advances in statistical inference: theory and case studies, organised by Laura Ventura and Walter Racugno. Esp. when considering this is one of the last places I met with George Casella, in June 2010. As we have plenty [...]
Another number theory puzzle, completed in the plane to Hamburg: Integers n are called noble if they can be decomposed as a sum n=a+b+… of distinct integers such that 1/a+1/b+…=1. They are called bourgeois if they are not noble but can be decomposed as a sum n=a+b+… of integers, some of them identical, such that [...]
Innovation and NYC subway don't usually come together but something changed in the past year or so. One of the greatest life-changers has been the installation of countdown clocks in many of the stations, telling riders how long till the next (several) trains arrive. Now there is a smartphone app for this. (link) *** Readers of Chapter 1 of Numbers Rule Your World learn the concept behind these countdown clocks…
On my holiday travel, I found a disguised donut chart in the Delta Sky Magazine (Dec 2010), talking about manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Then, flipping through the Spanish section at the back of the same magazine, I found the...
Richard Everitt tweetted yesterday about a recent publication in JCGS by Rajib Paul, Steve MacEachern and Mark Berliner on convergence assessment via stratification. (The paper is free-access.) Since this is another clear interest of mine’s, I had a look at the paper in the train to Besançon. (And wrote this post as a result.) The [...]
A short visit to ISU but and therefore a busy and proftable day! About ten appointments in Snedecor Hall after a nice morning run, a highly attended Zyskind Lecture, and many interesting discussions all over the day: e.g., I had a great time discussing using null recurrent Markov chains for integral approximations with Krishna [...]
Another day full of interesting and challenging—in the sense they generated new questions for me—talks at the SuSTain workshop. After another (dry and fast) run around the Downs; Leo Held started the talks with one of my favourite topics, namely the theory of g-priors in generalized linear models. He did bring a new perspective on [...]
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Another full day spent working with Jean-Michel Marin on the new edition of Bayesian Core (soon to be Bayesian Essentials with R!) and the remaining hierarchical Bayes chapter… I have reread and completed the regression and GLM chapters, sent to very friendly colleagues for a last round of comments. Now, I am essentially idle, waiting [...]
