In the previous post Two Statisticians in a Battlefield, we discussed the importance of reporting a spread in addition to an average when describing data. In this post we look at three specific not…| Introductory Statistics
Two soldiers, both statisticians, were fighting side by side in a battlefield. They spotted an enemy soldier and they both fired their rifles. One statistician soldier fired one foot to the left of…| Introductory Statistics
Mitt Romney is currently a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for U.S. President. He recently, bowed to pressure from another presidential candidate in the Republican Party, had to …| Introductory Statistics
Physicists say that a measurement result given without an error estimate is worthless. This applies to benchmarking as well. We not only want to know how per...| pkolaczk.github.io