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December 5, 2007
Statistics: Einstein's Errors, Reversible Markov in Iraq, and Chocolate Chip Cookies
Readers of this site will know I'm a statistics junkie, so herewith some highlights from the latest issue of American Statistical Association's ever-fun journal:
- Turning points in the Iraq conflict: Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo in political science
- Chocolate chip cookies as a teaching aid: Chips per cookie is a Poisson distribution
- Einstein's first paper contained silly math errors
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