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- All your Bayes are belong to us: fun Bayes's Theorem problems. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-your-bayes-are-belong-to-us.html 5 comments
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- Learning to program is getting harder http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html 9 comments programming
- The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html 7 comments math
- [Q] Question about the logic of hypothesis testing http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/06/there-is-still-only-one-test.html?m=1 6 comments statistics
- Surprise at the election result suggests that we misinterpret probabilistic predictions [OC] http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-are-we-so-surprised.html 27 comments statistics
- Millennials are getting married much later than previous cohorts, and many will probably never marry http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/10/millennials-are-still-not-getting.html 24 comments statistics
- Bayes's theorem and logistic regression http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2014/04/bayess-theorem-and-logistic-regression.html 5 comments statistics
- Almost 25% of first-year college student report no religious preference. The fraction is increasing fast, and probably accelerating. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2014/03/freshman-hordes-slightly-more-godless.html 12 comments statistics
- Correlation is evidence of causation http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2014/02/correlation-is-evidence-of-causation.html 52 comments statistics
- An exercise in Bayesian inference, inspired by a Christmas present. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/12/leslie-valiant-is-probably-british-or.html 4 comments statistics
- Based on the new world record, I predict a two-hour marathon by 2043 http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/10/one-step-closer-to-two-hour-marathon.html 14 comments statistics
- Are your data normal? Hint: no. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/08/are-my-data-normal.html 47 comments statistics
- Predicting train arrivals based on passengers on the platform. A new case study in Think Bayes. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-red-line-problem.html 7 comments statistics
- Optimal bidding on The Price Is Right: excerpt from a new chapter in Think Bayes. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-price-is-right-problem.html 3 comments statistics
- An update on my unseen species project: bold predictions on Belly Button Biodiversity. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/02/belly-button-biodiversity-part-three.html 5 comments statistics
- I'm teaching computational Bayesian statistics this spring; looking for real-world problems for my students to work on. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/01/call-for-bayesian-case-studies.html 4 comments statistics
- Secularization in America: by 2030 (at the latest), None will be the second-largest religious affiliation. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/07/secularization-in-america-part-six.html 5 comments statistics
- Secularization in America: what caused widespread religious disaffiliation in the 1990s? http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/07/secularization-in-america-part-five.html 6 comments statistics
- Secularization in America: do people get more religious as they age, or are old people more religious because they were born earlier? http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/06/secularization-in-america-part-four.html 3 comments statistics
- Secularization in America: a generational model of changes in religious affiliation http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/06/secularization-in-america-part-two.html 5 comments statistics
- Fog warning system, part two. Now with more Poisson regression. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/04/fog-warning-system-part-two.html 4 comments statistics
- Automated highway warning signs: life-savers or hazards? RFC on a new project. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/04/fog-warning-system-life-saver-or-road.html 3 comments statistics
- Passive voice in technical writing: $100 bounty for a style guide that recommends it. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/04/passive-voice-is-hoax.html 23 comments statistics
- Video from my PyCon tutorial on Bayesian statistics (it's three hours, but it flies by!) http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/03/bayesian-statistics-made-simple.html 3 comments statistics
- Pointing out bad uses of statistics in the press: good clean fun or a mean-spirited waste of time? http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/02/to-be-statistics-nazi.html 10 comments statistics
- Think Complexity: Part Four. Small world graphs and scale free networks. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/02/think-complexity-part-four.html 3 comments statistics
- Data from the CIRP Freshman Survey is now available in free PDFs. Here's an article I wrote about increasingly godless freshmen. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/01/freshman-hordes-even-more-godless.html 3 comments statistics
- The philosophy of complexity: part two of my book, Think Complexity. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/01/think-complexity-part-two.html 7 comments statistics
- I am serializing my new book on complexity science; comments welcome. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2012/01/think-complexity.html 8 comments statistics
- Are first babies more likely to be light? An example of multiple regression using rpy. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/11/are-first-babies-more-likely-to-be.html 3 comments statistics
- Followup on a post from a few weeks ago, asking about when a renal tumor formed. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/11/estimating-age-of-renal-tumors.html 3 comments statistics
- Solution to the Red Haired Girl Named Florida problem. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/11/girl-named-florida-solutions.html 17 comments statistics
- The world's hardest probability problem: the red-haired girl named Florida. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/11/red-haired-girl-named-florida.html 24 comments statistics
- All your Bayes are belong to us! Solutions to my favorite Bayes's Theorem Problems (posted last week). http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-your-bayes-are-belong-to-us.html 5 comments statistics
- Bogus with a capital B: A blog post following up on the discussion of repeated A/B tests. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/10/repeated-tests-how-bad-can-it-be.html 3 comments statistics
- Probably Overthinking It: The Jimmy Nut Company problem. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/08/jimmy-nut-company-problem.html 6 comments statistics
- Hierarchical Bayesian models made easy: how to model pond scum. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/06/hierarchical-bayesian-model-of-pond.html 4 comments statistics
- Hypothesis testing made easy: part 2, case studies http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-hypotheses-less-trivia.html 4 comments statistics
- Hypothesis testing made easy: only one test, simulate and count. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/05/there-is-only-one-test.html 9 comments statistics
- I predict a two-hour marathon in 2045 (and explain why the progression is linear). http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/04/two-hour-marathon-in-2045.html 4 comments statistics