- This week, we found a number of useful webinars and presentations for statisticians and data scientists on R. Feel free to check out the following opportunities: Online course on forecasting using R by Prof. Hyndman of Monash University, Coursera’s free R courses, Why use R for Data Analysis by Vivek H. Patil of Gonzaga University, and two workshops on R by Bob Muenchen.
- If I roll five dice, what’s the chance that exactly two of the die show the same number?
- Did you know that even famous mathematicians like Paul Erdős had a hard time believing the result of the Monty Hall Problem? It was a computer simulation that eventually convinced him. Here’s a simulation of the Monty Hall Problem, and my own take on the how the problem is often poorly presented.
- During the 2013 JSM (Joint Statistics Meetings) Conference in Montreal, Revolution Analytics conducted a survey of attendees from August 5 to August 8. The 865 respondents gave their opinions on the privacy and ethics related to data collection, and on their familiarity with statistical software used for the analysis of such data. Out of the 865 statisticians surveyed…
