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Stats Made Easy: September 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Monday, September 25, 2006. Longer-term perspective on global warming (and other catastrophes). In this context, should a less than 1 degree increase in global temperature be considered abnormal, that is, due to a special cause such as man-made carbon dioxide? PS Here's something to really worry about. The November issue of. Will pull the asteroid off target and save the planet. Posted by Mark @ 4:42 PM. Friday, September 22, 2006. I am afraid the average pe...

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Stats Made Easy: October 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Drinking twice as much reduces heart attack by factor of three? After suffering a mild heart attack (an oxymoron! Today I was heartened to see in the HeartCenterOnline Newsletter that a study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston indicates that two drinks daily help men avoid heart attack. At first glance at the following detail I thought I ought to have more than two drinks:. Posted by Mark @ 10:33 AM. According to phy...

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Stats Made Easy: June 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Sunday, June 25, 2006. Statistics show slump after workday lunch, but siesta not suggested. Tea commissioned a study that shows 2:16 pm to be the time when UK workers hit their low ebb. One concludes that this would be just the time for a cup of tea or other caffeinated beverage. The results, based on a sample of 2000 people, indicated that energies peaked at 9:23 am and 4:31 pm (time to go home! Posted by Mark @ 7:17 AM. Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Only I had b...

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Stats Made Easy: November 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Sunday, November 26, 2006. In search of the non-obvious. All of you scientists and engineers working in the USA had better keep an eye out on this war in court. It may cause quite a shakeup in the aims of R&D. Meanwhile, at a more personal level, many of us will be looking for that perfect gift for the person who already owns everything. Obviously it must be something that is not obvious. For example, how about Smittens. Posted by Mark @ 10:57 AM. My RSS fee...

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Stats Made Easy: February 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Monday, February 27, 2006. Musings from Mazatlan Mexico. I just returned from a week of surf and sun - a welcome respite from the coldest spell this winter in Minnesota. I went from -15 to 85 F from takeoff to touchdown over the four hour flight south - a span of 100 degrees! Our brains have evolved so that science eludes us but religion comes naturally.". PS This issue of. See Volume 94, Number 2, March-April 2006. Posted by Mark @ 5:33 AM. I've been asked ...

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Stats Made Easy: April 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Thursday, April 27, 2006. Repeated measure versus true replication. It was my pleasure yesterday to teach design of experiments (DOE) at the Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business for their Web-Leveraged Six Sigma Black Belt program. Posted by Mark @ 1:05 PM. Wednesday, April 19, 2006. If good news outweighs the bad, is it fair to say that on average one need not worry? David Bellinger, Harvard Medical School). Posted by Mark @ 6:19 AM. Hired int...

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Stats Made Easy: May 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Monday, May 29, 2006. More than just a coincidence? My youngest daughter Katie gave me this porch-light frog for Father's Day last year. As we discovered yesterday, it also serves as an inviting home for real creatures of its kind. Posted by Mark @ 10:06 AM. Monday, May 22, 2006. Dyscalculia - numbers made hard. Joke: Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 ate 9! You don't get this? Perhaps you suffer from dyscalculia. Maybe fractions should be put in a special cat...

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Stats Made Easy: December 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Sunday, December 24, 2006. Do mental workouts keep your mind sharp? Yesterday when I saw a Christmas card in our post-box, I wondered who went right down to the wire with their mailings this year. It was my last card returned for lack of address. I only put the name on the envelope - no postal address. Could this be a sign of my mental decline after age 50? According to an article by Debbie Geiger of. Best of New Orleans. See review by Walter Mossberg of the.

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Stats Made Easy: August 2006

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Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Saturday, August 26, 2006. Weighty words against decade-long study. I feel like the researchers were trying to manipulate their data to match their conclusion.". BMI) between 25 to 29 is considered overweight - above a BMI of 30 you fall into the obese category, for which there's seemingly no question about associated health problems. However, Glenn Gaesser of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville joins critic of this recent study by saying. In 1987 ...