Terence’s Stuff
Terry Speed is mad as hell that we are still struggling for gender equity after all these years. Are you doing something about it?
In this issue, Terry Speed surveys the history of least squares, which has applications to life, the universe and everything…
In the last issue, Terry Speed wrote about n vs n−1. So what links that topic to Walter Shewhart and control charts? 0.886!
“Why is the denominator in the sample mean n, but the denominator for the sample variance is n−1?” a reader asked me. My answer needs to be comprehensible to his grand-daughter, who we can safely say is not doing an advanced degree in statistics at an institution of…
For many statisticians, working in theory is the same as working in practice. Terry Speed begs to disagree.