Tasty » Adam Sampson's statistics bookmarks

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

Liquid Asset edit / delete

"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

Gnuplot tricks edit / delete

Doing *really* silly things with gnuplot.

to gnuplot graphing maths statistics visualisation ... on 29 September 2011

Gnuplot tricks: Basic statistics with gnuplot edit / delete

Doing silly things with gnuplot. I'm not really convinced that any of this is a good idea.

to gnuplot graphing maths statistics visualisation ... on 29 September 2011

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All edit / delete

This is fantastic. My students'll be getting a link to it next year, along with Susan's presentation along similar lines.

to benchmarking maths statistics teaching ... on 25 June 2011

So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special? edit / delete

to maths research statistics ... on 11 October 2010

ROOT | A Data Analysis Framework edit / delete

Exactly what you want if you're throwing around enormous amounts of physics data. I wonder if there might be complex systems uses for some of their cool visualisation stuff? (Also: implemented in C++, with a C++ interpreter provided for scripting!)

to c++ data-analysis graphics science simulation statistics visualisation ... on 10 August 2010

Stochastic Calculus edit / delete

Mostly interesting to me for the old radio and Tektronix scopes bits.

to electronics maths oscilloscope radio retrotech statistics ... on 29 July 2009