How would you advise an undergraduate interested in a PhD to prepare for studying biostats? More math. You can't be too rich or know too much math. In terms of courses, take more mathematics, take as much as you can. When you get into our biostatisti...
Seems that people with severe mental illness are able to easily purchase guns in this country. Seems like people (whether actually mentally ill or not) who are upset and angry and want to hurt someone also can purchase a gun easily. Often we hear that...
25 helpful pieces of advice. Comportment: Walk like you're walking away from an explosion in a Hollywood movie. Tuck your chin in, tilt your head down and look at people from out of the top of your eyes. Squint. Lecturing: Show up late, then run ove...
Someone asked this recently, so I am posting a response here. For as long as I've been in the statistics/biostatistics profession, students haven't had difficulties finding jobs after graduation. There aren't enough biostat and stat MS and PhD grads t...
R has 108 shades of grey with an 'e', and 116 shades of gray with an 'a'. Fully 34% of named colors are gray/grey of some kind. So when can we expect R, the movie? # Blog appendix > temp = colors() > length(temp) #657 [1] 657 > > temp2 ...
Lately there has been much hand wringing about the future of statistics. My hands have also been wrung, and I expect to continue to wring them. My own worries are several. These can be categorized as scientific concerns, naming rights, legacy/wasting ...
Prescript: Memory is fickle. It's been a while since these events, a while since I took her regression course and a while since I've read her papers. One thing I've found is that memories of the contents of particular papers evolves with time, and memo...
Prescript: Memory is fickle. It's been a while since these events, a while since I took her regression course and a while since I've read her papers. One thing I've found is that memories of the contents of particular papers evolves with time, and memo...
William Feller's book An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications Volume I is more commonly and affectionately known as Feller Volume One. It is on many statistician's and mathematician's deserted (desert?) island book lists. The deser...
William Feller's book An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications Volume I is more commonly and affectionately known as Feller Volume One. It is on many statistician's and mathematician's deserted (desert?) island book lists. The deser...
