Archive for the ‘Programming, Data and Metrics’ Category
How to Get Your Wallet Back
Richard Wiseman, the psychologist who brought us LaughLab, and their quest to find the world’s funniest joke, has come out with another piece of interesting research. Professor Wiseman tried to determine what factors increased the chances of getting a lost wallet returned. He found that wallets containing baby pictures were returned at a significantly higher [...]
July 20, 2009
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LaTeX Support in WordPress
Using the WP LaTeX plugin, this website now supports the typesetting language. From now on, you will have the joy of getting more math in your posts.
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June 25, 2009
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Tool for Teaching Regression
Professor Charles Stanton of California State University, San Bernardino has put up a nifty tool that can help in the understanding of linear regression. The java applet allows you to place regression points on a Cartesian plane. Once you put down two points, the applet draws a regression line and gives you the equation for [...]
August 26, 2006
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Public and Private School Performance in the 2003 NAEP
The US Department of Education recently released a report comparing public and private schools. The study used the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, which is a nationally representative sample of public and private school students. This particular study looked at reading and math test performance of students in the fourth and eighth grades. [...]
August 24, 2006
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Let’s Make a Deal: A SAS Program to Play Monty Hall
The Monty Hall problem is a statistical puzzle loosely based on the game show Let’s Make a Deal, which was hosted by Monty Hall. Many websites discuss the Monty Hall problem, but the crux of the idea is that you are looking to win a prize that can be found behind one of three doors. [...]
August 9, 2006
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