Notices tagged with statistics

After the country made vaccines illegal vaccine related death declined. In fact if you compare all countries where vaccines are illegal you will find vaccine related death is almost non existent. But in other countries where vaccines are legal vaccine related death is in the hundreds every year. I think this clearly shows why vaccines kill and should be made illegal.

This is what people who are anti-gun sound like. Do they even realize how absurd and how much lack of understanding they have when it comes to interpreting data and statistics?

#science #statistics #guns

If someone who is better at #statistics than me wants to help me model the likely outcome of this fight, I'm actually super curious.

I'm looking for #graphs & #statistics about the development & growth of the #fediverse.

Apparently I'm either too stupid to find something on Google or there's barely anything out there, so far. Fellow tooters, help me out!

I noticed an interesting statistical pattern thing today that my brain seemed to have done while I was doing my job. I'll try to write up a description of it shortly. 😊 My mindfulness meets my growing math-y intuition! #personal #math #statistics

Bookmark: [toread] [1805.11506] A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11506 #web #statistics #appraisal #alexa #research #data

#Statistics make Russian roulette look safe. :blobeyes:

If anyone with some #statistics or #mathematical inclination is looking for a good way to get into computery stuff, I heartily recommend Data Analysis With Open Source Tools. It seems like a good way to apply modern stats to large data sets.

I wish I could recommend it to computer people wanting to learn more mathematics, but I think the mathematics in the book might be scary, since it's not often explained from first principles. It seems better for the other direction.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/data-analysis-with-open-source-tools/oclc/758774929

@sivy 1M records isn't small. Traditional stats is made for data sets where 50 observations is a generous size.

So, since you're saying "records", I am guessing you do database stuff so you know how to program. A popular book for your presumed ilk is Think Bayes. I haven't read it, but heard good things.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/think-bayes/oclc/982092916

One book I did read and liked was this one. Don't let the title scare you. #MachineLearning is just #statistics rebranded for computer people.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/machine-learning-for-hackers/oclc/913045279

@batjan @Maenad The next day, still around Halloween, the #statistics prof had a different costume on. Just a witch hat.

But, again she explained: she wasn't a witch. She was merely leptokurtic.

@Maenad Last semester for Halloween @batjan's #statistics prof attached two tails to her butt and was handing out tea bags at the beginning of the class. Once the undergrads settled down for the lecture to begin, she explained:

She was a two-tailed tea distribution.

When getting a spot on campus to chat with @zacts I happened to sit next to a group of guys that ended up debating #stats about basketball, comparing stats about present day players versus classic era (Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson). Knowing little basketball data but some statistics, it was fun to infer what basketball history they were likely talking about. At one point I interjected to defend a guy whose point wasn't being heard, and my contribution was appreciated. 😂 #statistics #college

Future project: predicting #Liberapay stats, week by week, determining whether there's seasonality (not necessarily dealing with seasons but whether, say, donations tend to be given in the first week of the month while withdrawals are done in last week of month). #stats #statistics #projects

You can now see two graphs of the @Liberapay stats, pre and post-USD: https://data.world/bthall/liberapay/insights

(I'm hoping that I did this right. 😩)
#Liberapay #stats #statistics #graphs #Rlang https://mastodon.social/media/nCbbzKpvs-zxaT_bu30

If you'd like to analyze the data, I've put it on #dataDotWorld: https://data.world/bthall/liberapay
#stats #statistics #dataScience

@baldur wat they're measuring book sales by gross revenue instead of numbers of books sold. What if it's just the case that book prices declined? If that is the case and they've declined very significantly, numbers of #books sold might actually be increasing. #statistics