Archive for the 'Statistics' Category

Second Best
Sunday, October 19th, 2008

My standard fall back playlist on my ipod/itunes is the Top 100 Most Played smart playlist that comes standard with iTunes.  It’s music I enjoy, obviously, and it has enough of a mix of moods and genres that I can always find something I like.  The problem is though, that the more I listen to [...]

Cases Seen
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Say goodbye to your favorite sidebar graph! I removed the internship countdown and it seems only appropriate to retire this feature as well. Towards the end I think I lost most of my “blues” (the blue colored carbon copy of the top sheet that we use to track our visits) so my numbers [...]

Confounding
Friday, March 16th, 2007

My favorite statistical concept is confounding. According to the wonderful Wikipedia, a confounding variable is “an extraneous variable in a statistical or research model that affects the dependent variables in question but has either not been considered or has not been controlled for.”
It’s always been my opinion that, in the social sciences at least, [...]