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Home | St Kilda Soay Sheep Project

"The Soay Sheep Project has been running in its current form since 1985, with continuous collection of information about individuals including genetic parentage, morphological data and life-histories. This has enabled ground-breaking research into topics including population dynamics, evolution and genetics, ageing and parasite infection in a natural setting." It turns out Soay sheep are very cute and have terrifying population dynamics.

to biology research scotland sheep st-kilda statistics ... on 18 January 2019

Teaching critical thinking | PNAS

"In our study, students in the experiment condition were explicitly instructed to (and received grades to) quantitatively compare multiple collected datasets or a collected dataset and a model and to decide how to act on the comparisons." This would be an interesting way to teach performance measurement in CMP201...

to cmp201 critical-thinking science statistics teaching ... on 04 November 2018

Handy statistical lexicon - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

"These are all important methods and concepts related to statistics that are not as well known as they should be. I hope that by giving them names, we will make the ideas more accessible to people:" (Someone must have written a "statistics patterns" book already!)

to statistics ... on 05 May 2018

Mark Fickett | Art Stuff | Dice Roller

"An automatic system for rolling a polyhedral die and taking photos of the rolls; extracting the image of just the die from those images; clustering the images of the die by which face is shown; and analyzing the results."

to dice games random rpg statistics vision ... on 19 September 2016

a memory less ephemeral: How many times should you run your simulation?

Another useful bit of statistical advice for students from Susan's blog.

to honours measurement science statistics ... on 19 March 2016

Monopoly Simulations — koaning.io

Finding the (fairly small) biases in Monopoly through simulation.

to board-games games monopoly statistics ... on 31 December 2015

aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R

"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The development environment suffers from literally decades of accretion of stupid hacks from a community containing, to a first-order approximation, zero software engineers."

to amusements language-design r statistics ... on 06 October 2015

ElectionForecast.co.uk

Predicting the results of the general election using R. With pretty pictures.

to election modelling politics prediction statistics uk ... on 28 March 2015

Togaware: Hands-On Data Science with R

A course on data mining and related techniques using R.

to data data-mining r statistics ... on 13 March 2015

Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong

"A woefully incomplete guide." But what it does talk about is good advice.

to ag0803 science statistics ... on 13 March 2015