Category: Wiki pages. These links discuss contributions I have made to various Wiki sites (Chance News and Wikipedia) as well as general discussion about Wiki pages. Articles are listed in alphabetical order. You can find the theme and closely related categories and other resources at the bottom of this page.
Stats: High altitude effects on athletic performance (January 5, 2008). A recent article in BMJ offers a nice illustration of logistic and Poisson regression applied to a practical problem. I want to write an article about this for Chance News. Here is a first draft.
Stats: A recent contribution to Wikipedia and to the Chance Wiki (February 15, 2007). I've made some minor contributions from time to time in Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia on the web edited by volunteers. Just last night, I made major revisions to an entry, Biased sample, that was written in a rather informal tone. I tried to use more rigorous definitions in the article. I also added a few comments today about weighting to correct for biases in sampling and deliberately biased samples. I also wrote an entry in the Chance Wiki (Chance News 24), The danger of providing expert witness testimony when you are not an expert
Stats: An entry in Chance News (January 5, 2006). For time to time, I have contributed small items to a web publication called Chance News. Today, I submitted an article, Laughter in the Supreme Court, which is the ninth item in Issue 11.
Stats: Bad calculation of annual rate of return (March 15, 2007). The Chance Wiki has a section called "Forsooths." This section presents quantitative errors in the popular press that are self-evident under careful examination. I found an interesting example which I added to issue #24.
Stats: New entry in the Chance Wiki (June 7, 2006). I just posted a new article in the Chance Wiki: Chance News 18: What does "unable to replicate" mean?
Stats: Publication in the ChanceWiki (August 2, 2005). Chance News has changed recently to a Wiki format and I decided to offer a contribution, Can you get fired over the wording of a questionnaire
Stats: The Wikipedia (April 15, 2004). Part of my job on these web pages is to find good resources beyond what I can write about Statistics. I'm finding more and more that there are wonderful references in a web resource known as the Wikipedia.
Stats: Two articles in the Chance Wiki (September 6, 2005). I submitted two articles in the July-August 2005 Chance Wiki. The first article, "Can you get fired over the wording of a questionnaire?" was mentioned on my weblog several times before I drafted up something for the Chance Wiki. The second article "Racial Profiling" is an interesting case study
Stats: What can you do with 100 words? (January 12, 2007). I added another short entry to Chance News 23 about a dubious claim that 100 words are needed for half of all reading in English: What can you do with 100 words?
Stats: Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence Interval (August 21, 2006). In reviewing resources about the Clopper Pearson confidence interval, I noticed a Wikipedia entry, Binomial Confidence Interval, that was tagged as needing attention from an expert on the subject.
Stats: Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence Interval, Part 2 (August 22, 2006). Here's my first attempt to improve the Wikipedia entry on the binomial confidence interval.
Stats: Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence Interval, Part 3 (August 29, 2006). Here's some additional material that I will add to the Wikipedia entry on Binomial Proportion Confidence Interval.
Stats: Wikipedia entry on sample (October 2, 2006). In earlier weblog entries, I described my efforts to improve a page on Wikipedia, binomial proportion confidence interval, that was flagged as being too technical. One of the Wikipedia pages that I linked to, Sample (statistics), was identified as a stub, so I took some efforts to improve this page as well.
Chance News pages I have written
Articles
- Chance News 37, A microscopic pvalue
- Chance News 33, High altitude effects on athletic performance
- Chance News 32, What do economists know that lawyers don't
- Chance News 31, Using Statistics to bust myths
- Chance News 30, Excel 2007 arithmetic error
- Chance News 28, Sloppy animal research
- Chance News 26, Excluding car bombs from a measure of sectarian violence
- Chance News 24, The danger of providing expert witness testimony when you are not an expert
- Chance News 23, What can you do with 100 words?
- Chance News 23, Can Google replace your doctor?
- Chance News 23, Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases
- Chance News 22, I wasn't making up data, I was imputing!
- Chance News 20, A clumsy attempt at anonymization
- Chance News 18, What does "unable to replicate" mean?
- Chance News 16, Exponential decay in Biblical ages
- Chance News 16, Use and Reliability of Internet information
- Chance News 14, Single and not so carefree
- Chance News 12, Can dogs sniff out cancer?
- Chance News 11, Laughter in the Supreme Court
- Chance News 6, Self Experimentation
- Chance News 4, Racial profiling
- Chance News 4, Can you get fired over the wording of a questionnaire
Miscellaneous entries
Wikipedia entries I have edited (these are very minor edits for the most part)
- Biased sample (February 2007)
- Binomial proportion confidence interval (September and December 2006)
- Sample (statistics) (September and October 2006)
- Simple random sample (October 2006)
Theme and closely related categories:
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This webpage was written on 2007-06-05 and was last modified on 2008-07-08.