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How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results edit / delete
"Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean."
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Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong edit / delete
"From basic t tests and standard error calculations to Cox proportional hazards models and geospatial kriging systems, we rely on statistics to give answers to scientific problems. This is unfortunate, because most of us don’t know how to do statistics."
to maths science statistics teaching ... on 01 December 2013
[citation needed]» Blog Archive » The homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages’ lunch edit / delete
With links to lots of useful Python packages for scientific computing. Not new, but it's a good survey of just how far it's come.
to maths python science statistics teaching ... on 01 December 2013
Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement -- Daily Intelligencer edit / delete
Or why using a spreadsheet for your stats isn't necessarily a great idea.
to spreadsheet statistics validation ... on 29 April 2013
Failure is a Four-Letter Word - Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller) - Saarland University edit / delete
How to lie with software engineering metrics (and, in a few cases, just outright lie).
to academia ag0803 amusements research statistics ... on 02 April 2013
A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks · ipython/ipython Wiki · GitHub edit / delete
"This page is a curated collection of IPython notebooks that are notable for some reason." Lots of examples of people doing cool stuff interactively with Python.
to maths python research statistics ... on 24 March 2013
UB CSE Department: Kenneth W. Regan edit / delete
Some interesting material on statistical detection of cheating in chess -- for example, showing how a human player can actually achieve a very good match to a computer player entirely by accident, because of heavily-constrained paths in the game tree.
to cheating chess games maths statistics ... on 20 February 2013
Decomposition: The Statistics Software Signal edit / delete
to amusements software statistics ... on 08 January 2013
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 75% edit / delete
That's the president of Lake Wobegon, presumably...
to ag0803 amusements comics statistics ... on 12 November 2012
"Article 1: by Richard E. Quandt on statistical methods for analyzing blind wine tastings", and similar articles on practical applications of various statistical methods to competitions. Not at all what I was looking for (stats for benchmarking), but useful nevertheless.
to competition maths statistics wine ... on 16 October 2012
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tasty by Adam Sampson.