With it nearing the end of hurricane season it’s only appropriate to do a brief summary of the activity this year. It’s been a surprisingly low-key season as far as hurricanes are co
Month: October 2013
The beta distribution is highly flexible distribution and applies to many situations and environments. The beta distribution applies well when there are percentages. The upcoming New Jersey U.S. Se
Rick Wicklin on the SAS blog made a post today on how to tell if a sequence of coin flips were random. I figured it was only fair to port the SAS IML code over to R. Just like Rick Wick
I had someone ask me the other day how to take a scatterplot and draw something other than a straight line through the graph using Excel. Yes, it can be done in Excel and it’s really quite
There are many kinds of intervals in statistics. To name a few of the common intervals: confidence intervals, prediction intervals, credible intervals, and tolerance intervals. Each are usefu