www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html Introduction to Statistical Thought grew out of my teaching graduate and undergraduate statistics courses for many years, and from my experience as a statistical consultant and collaborator. I wanted to write a text that explains how statisticians think about data, introduces modern statistical computing, and has lots of real examples. The book is intended as an upper level undergraduate or introductory graduate textbook in statistical thinking with a likelihood emphasis for students with a good knowledge of calculus and the ability to think abstractly. Another unusual aspect is the use of statistical software as a pedagogical tool. Here is a copy of a book review from JASA, December, 2006. Introduction to Statistical Thought is not finished, and probably never will be, but is sufficiently complete to be used as a course text by knowledgable instructors. Introduction to Statistical Thought is available for free download. Download a pdf:EnglishBelorussianDownload data
Complexity and The Future of Aid This piece is cross-posted from the Global Policy blog, where it has been published as part of Global Policy’s new e-book, ‘Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Aid’, edited by Andy Sumner. Contributions from academics and practitioners will be serialised on Global Policy until the e-book’s release in the first quarter of 2014. Find out more here or join the debate onTwitter #GPfutureofaid. There is a pervasive and longstanding bias in aid. Due to a combination of political expediency, administrative convenience, and organizational culture, aid agencies have strong institutional tendencies toward operating as though the world is one enormous Newtonian clockwork: predictable, ordered, mechanical. However the challenge in foreign aid is that such biases are not aberrations or one-offs but a fundamental part of the rules of the game. What this all amounts to is a call for a more practical, attainable vision of development. Like this: Like Loading...
Statistics 110: Probability - Download Free Content from Harvard University Cartogram Types What is a Cartogram? Borden D. Dent in the fourth edition of his book "Cartography Thematic Map Design" begins his chapter on cartograms this way: "Erwin Raisz called cartograms 'diagrammatic maps.' Today they might be called cartograms, value-by-area maps, anamorphated images or simply spatial transformations. A cartogram is a type of graphic that depicts attributes of geographic objects as the object's area. The difference between these two types of non-contiguous cartograms is a significant one. PSEUDO-CARTOGRAMS Pseudo-cartograms (or false cartograms) are representations that may look like cartograms but do not follow certain cartogram rules. For a new kind of professor, teaching comes first When York University begins advertising to hire new professors this fall, the job descriptions will have an important distinction: The new hires will focus on teaching, and will not be required to do research like their colleagues. York’s plan to bring in about 200 such faculty over several years is one of the most expansive of the initiatives at Canadian universities over the past several years to introduce a new breed of faculty member – the teaching-focused professor. Under growing pressure to improve teaching quality, due in no small part to constrained funding and swelling class sizes, more than a dozen schools of all sizes across Canada, with some notable exceptions, have gradually created a permanent teaching stream. Professors have long been expected to spend about 40 per cent of their time teaching, 40 per cent on research, and the rest doing committee or community work. “When you’re also a researcher, you’re a different kind of teacher. Students are similarly divided.
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The Food Lab: 15-Minute Ultra-Gooey Stovetop Mac and Cheese Just as fast as the blue box, but way, way better. [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] More Cheese Week All About Cheese: Everything you need to know about eating and cooking with curds Here's another exclusive excerpt from my book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, which is apparently now a New York Times best-seller. I hope you enjoy the excerpt (and the mac and cheese!) No matter how much culinary training I've gone through, and no matter how many high-end ingredients I cook with or fancy restaurants I eat at, few things in the world can compete with the sheer deliciousness and childish pleasure of stovetop mac and cheese. It's the texture that does it for me. Gimme a Break! Cheese melts, right? In order to understand why that happens, let's take a closer look at exactly what cheese is made of: Water is present to varying degrees.Young cheeses like jack, young cheddars, and mozzarella have a relatively high water content—up to 80 percent. The best part? Cheese Chart
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