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Category Archives: Statistics

Safest Seats

Friday, July 20, 2007

Common sense would direct you to sit in the back of the plane if you were trying to increase your chance of surviving an albeit unlikely crash. Turns out that statistical analysis indicates that this is true, that is, your likelihood of survival seems to increase if you sit further back in the cabin. Nevertheless, […]

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Statistical Handbook

Saturday, January 6, 2007

Gerard Dallal’s Little Handbook of Statistical Practice is an invaluable resource for those of us who are performing statistical analyses.

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Tufte’s New Deal

Friday, March 3, 2006

Edward Tufte is taking pre-orders for his forthcoming book Beautiful Evidence. He’s also got a pretty nice deal offering all four of his books (including the new one) for only $150.

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More on Benford’s Law

Friday, February 24, 2006

Essentially, Benford’s law predicts a certain distribution of numbers – violations of that distribution indicate fabricated data. Turns out Boing Boing had a post on this just a few weeks ago. The best treatment of it is on Wolfram’s Mathworld pages, which also has an extensive bibliography (always a plus.) I’m interested in studying applications […]

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Benford’s Law

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Kottke.org has an interesting piece on using Benford’s law to catch cheaters.

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