Modeling Longitudinal Data Book Website.
Biostat 251: Multivariate Biostatistics.
Biostat 234: Bayesian Statistics.
Biostat 230 Statistical Graphics.
Biostat 236 Repeated Measures. Course information, links, data and labs.
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Some Technical Reports.
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The Purpose of Statistics (Technical).
MISSLINK: The Mathematical Institute for Statistical, Scientific and Logical Inquiry into Natural Knowledge.
Statistical Consulting for Legal, Scientific and Business Problems.
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Excerpt from Time magazine on-line. Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Sex in the Syllabus
By LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN
Likewise, Catherine Sherwood-Puzello, who covers pornography in her human-sexuality class at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, the home of sex pioneer Alfred Kinsey's institute, displays Michelangelo's David and Playboy covers in her class but "no X-rated movies," she says. "Those are not a good way to explain porn," which she believes is best taught with the same dispassion with which one would teach a course on statistics.
She may teach without passion. Those of us in the know understand that one can and should be passionate about statistics.
Statistician, walking down the street
Statistician, the kind I like to meet
Statistician
I don't believe you, you're not the truth
No one computes as good as you
oh my
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival,
which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of
mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose
existence can only be defined as being anything other than
itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one
moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of
the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital
part in many branches of math, including statistics and
accountancy and also form the basic equations
used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
-- Douglas Adams, Life the Universe and Everything
This is it, we're all here right now in this moment.
There really isn't anything else going on right now. ... We win.
-- Shelly Weiss
Just remember what the Maasai say
"I'm not lucky," said the hyena, "I just have strong legs."
The better chess player always gets lucky.
-- Old Chess Proverb
It is easier to make a good discovery when you
are ignorant than when you know it all.
-- Old Scientist's Dictum.
He who consumes the most calories, wins.
-- Excommunicated Dietician.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes, and to study those you
still need Statistics.
-- Robert Weiss
Early to bed, early to rise. One out of two ain't bad.
-- Anon (with apologies to Ben Franklin)
Asked about the 2.6 million jobs forecast, McClellan said,
"The president is interested in actual jobs being created rather than economic modeling."
He quoted Bush as saying, "I'm not a statistician. I'm not a predictor."
"We are interested in reality," McClellan said.