I describe my interview process. | Continue reading
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post. Actually, this is my 100th post, according to my metrics. I wanted to write a fancy article about my history of blogging, how I started doing … | Continue reading
Packt Publishing has turned another one of my video courses, Training Your Systems with Python Statistical Modeling, into a book! This book is now available for purchase. It is a tutorial book for … | Continue reading
Grades are not Normally distributed. That’s not what’s seen naturally in grades and the idea is not supported by statistics. You can force grades to look Normally distributed, but doing… | Continue reading
My second package implements change point testing procedures, especially those for end-of-sample change points. I demonstrate on an example computing a stock’s alpha and beta. | Continue reading
Dave’s Donuts offers 14 flavors of donuts (consider the supply of each flavor as being unlimited). The “grab bag” box consists of flavors randomly selected to be in the box, each flavor equal… | Continue reading
Introduction Months ago, I asked a question to the community: how should I organize my R research projects? After writing that post, doing some reading, then putting a plan in practice, I now have … | Continue reading
Introduction Now here is a blog post that has been sitting on the shelf far longer than it should have. Over a year ago I wrote an article about problems I was having when estimating the parameters… | Continue reading
Introduction The Forgotten Age cycle of Arkham Horror is at a close and Fantasy Flight Games already announced the next cycle, The Circle Undone. Not only that, they’ve announced two mythos p… | Continue reading
Introduction These past few weeks I’ve been writing about a new package I created, MCHT. Those blog posts were basically tutorials demonstrating how to use the package. (Read the first in the… | Continue reading
Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve published articles about my new package, MCHT, starting with an introduction, a further technical discussion, demonstrating maximized Monte Carlo (MM… | Continue reading
Introduction Now that we’ve seen MCHT basics, how to make MCHTest() objects self-contained, and maximized Monte Carlo (MMC) testing with MCHT, let’s now talk about bootstrap testing. No… | Continue reading
Introduction I introduced MCHT two weeks ago and presented it as a package for Monte Carlo and boostrap hypothesis testing. Last week, I delved into important technical details and showed how to ma… | Continue reading
Introduction Last week I announced the first release of MCHT, an R package that facilitates bootstrap and Monte Carlo hypothesis testing. In this article, I will elaborate on some important technic… | Continue reading
MCHT is an R package for bootstrap and Monte Carlo hypothesis testing currently available on GitHub. | Continue reading
I announced months ago that one of my video courses, Unpacking NumPy and Pandas, was going to be turned into a book. Today I’m pleased to announce that this book is available! | Continue reading
Today is the first day of the new academic year at the University of Utah. This semester I am teaching MATH 3070: Applied Statistics I, the fourth time I’ve taught this course. | Continue reading
This final course caps the series off with applications. The first half of the course covers two major areas of AI: natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In the NLP section, I… | Continue reading
While I understand the languages I need well enough, I don’t know much about programming best practices. This goes from function naming to code organization, along with all the tools others c… | Continue reading
Last fall my adviser alerted me to the [MSRI workshop on high-dimensional data]( and suggested I may be interested. I applied and was accepted to participate. Thus, from July 9th to July 20th I sta… | Continue reading
Take a margin of error from a confidence interval and multiply it by 1.5; a future, replication estimate should be within that distance of the original estimate (with the same confidence level as t… | Continue reading
In this course I cover statistics and machine learning topics. The course assumes little knowledge about what statistics or machine learning involves. I touch lightly on the theory of statistics an… | Continue reading