Category: Randy Bartlett

Myth #5 builds upon the old confusion around significance testing that comprises this second ‘ancient’ myth (#6).  Suppose that you …

This blog discusses the ambition of rebranding predictive modeling as predictive analytics; and why this will enlarge the coming flood …

Repackaging statistics with complementary fields has the potential to create new synergies.  E.g., econometrics is the marriage of economics and …

Myth #2: Statisticians (and other quants), work within ‘traditional statistics’ The myth that statisticians only practice within ‘traditional statistics’ removes …

The current buzz about big data and data science is generating interest and a sense of urgency.  However, the promotional …

For more than a century, applied statisticians/quants have refined their accumulated wisdom in extracting information from numbers with uncertainty and …

[pullquote cite=”Kevin Gray” type=”right”]I think, I probably am.[/pullquote]Applied statistics provides our way of thinking and our approach to extracting the …

UFO sightings, where do they all come from?  Astronomers spend an inordinate amount of time scouring the skies.  However, as …

Identifying & Understanding Statistics Problems [pullquote cite=”W. Edwards Deming” type=”right”]The nonstatistician cannot always recognize a statistical problem when he sees …