This past weekend teams from the National Football League used statistics like height, weight and speed to draft the best college players, and in a few weeks, armchair enthusiasts will use similar measures to select players for their own fantasy football teams. Neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon...
While their widespread adoption took some time, advanced stats are now an everyday part of following the NBA. It's difficult to read about the league without hearing about True Shooting Percentage, or Rebounding Rate, or even something a little wackier like Advanced Plus-Minus. Counting rings...
The journal Computers in Biology and Medicine has published an article on the new IT application BootstRatio, created by IDIBELL researchers. The application allows online statistical analysis of data from gene expression*. Researchers at the Human Molecular Genetics group at IDIBELL, led by...
Hey, I need a great line to make this girl I like laugh. Something to do with T-Stats, P-Values, Regressions, ANOVA etc..would be awesome but anything statistics related would do! Thank You!
Using weekly influenza surveillance data from the US CDC, Edward Goldstein and colleagues develop a statistical method to predict the sizes of epidemics caused by seasonal influenza strains. This method could inform decisions about the most appropriate vaccines or drugs needed early in the...
than Shaq? Shaq's rookie stats: 81 games, 23.4 ppg, 13.9 rpg, 3.5 blocks per game, 56.2 fg %.
Blake's rookie stats thus far: 40 games, 22.5 ppg, 12.8 rpg, 0.7 blocks per game, 52.5 fg %.
Although Shaq dominates in virtually every relevant statistic, I think Blake can get his stats up as he...
In a move that will improve efficiency and collaboration in cancer research, Mayo biostatistician Daniel Sargent, Ph.D., will become director of the Statistical Center for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB), a national association of cancer researchers funded primarily by the National...
In a month or so I'll be going to Germany to visit my father. I'll be flying from Washington to Frankfurt, a flight which takes an average of eight hours. I know they say you have a better chance of getting in a car wreck on your way to the airport than on the actual flight, but this barely is...
I need a topic which looks at 3 quantitative variables to explain 1 quantitative result.
For example: the # of pies you eat per year, the amount of time you spend doing aerobic exercise, and the distance you park away from your office.
These 3 things may help explain your overall body weight...
Robert Gentleman and Donald Nickelson have joined the board of REvolution Computing. Gentleman is co-creator of this OpenSource statistical package which is widely used by researchers. The news was released moments ago, and here is a press release from the company:
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requirements for top psychology graduate schools? I've read that many competitive graduate schools would like to see a statistics class of some sort, and because Introduction to Statistical Methods (Psy 210 at my school) is usually a part of the undergraduate psychology curriculum, I'm wondering...