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Reject Math Supremacy
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are…
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Why are you so slow?
Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called "Rob It to Get It", which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running…
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Data Q&A
Answering the real questions with Python
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Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never
Based on new data from the National Survey of Family Growth
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Multiple Regression with StatsModels
Look at predictions, not parameters
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Smoking Causes Cancer
In the preface of Probably Overthinking It, I wrote:
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Density and Likelihood: What’s the Difference?
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page.
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We Have a Book!
My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived!
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Regrets and Regression
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page.
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The Overton Paradox in Three Graphs
This post is based on Chapter 12 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for pre-order now!
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Comparing Distributions
This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers.
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What does a confidence interval mean?
It quantifies precision but not accuracy
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