It’s about time I got some recognition !
You can claim your own Love Stats award here.
Careful, of undeserved awards, though. The last person who falsely claimed a Love Stats award had multicollinearity in his measures, a high VIF and died of complications of homoscedasticity. You have been warned.
When I was an undergraduate, I argued with my professor about the management theory that said it was not necessary to understand the business to be an effective manager but only to understand management. The example he gave (and that I never accepted) was of a carriage in the park. The driver of the carriage…
Wednesday, I went to a workshop, Mixed Models for Professors. It was a combination of discussion of the mathematics of mixed models, using SAS Enterprise Guide and examples for teaching. Since I was too lazy to actually take notes, I just tweeted it. Three useful pieces of advice, even if you don’t like my notes:…
Although I tell my students all of the time that statistics is everywhere, even I did not really see where mixed martial arts, free rice and PROC SURVEYSELECT could possibly have anything in common. Here is what happened …. Mixed martial arts Darling daughter #3 after the Olympics decides not to go to college as…
In the 20-day blogging challenge, the prompt for day seven was “Share a classroom management tip. What is one thing you do that works?” My initial thought was that I teach graduate school and if you are still having classroom management problems by then, either you or the student have a real issue. It happens,…
I have way more pictures of buffalo than the normal person. I guess that comes from working for 19 years on the reservation. After reading on GigaOm about the $28 billion in rural broadband access, I decided I wanted to write a post on Internet access in rural communities, specifically, the data we have on…
It is not every day that my refrigerator provides insight into a statistical problem. My daughter gave me this magnet. BIRTHDAYS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. STATISTICS SHOW THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE MOST BIRTHDAYS LIVE THE LONGEST. which led to my thoughts on life expectancy using open data. Kaiser Permanente collected data on two cohorts…
Congratulations! I’m so excited for you! This is truly an honour you should be proud of.
Thank you. I am hoping to qualify for more of these prestigious honors in the future.