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Note: Before starting Part 3, be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2! Welcome back! In this final installment of Visual Diagnostics for More Informed Machine Learning, we'll close the loop on visualization tools for navigating the different phases of the...

  “…Russel Lyons who posits that Christakis' and Fowler's work is a great example of statistical illiteracy, and that the conclusion drawn from their data, that obesity is socially contagious, is severely flawed and can't be made....

(This article was originally published at Understanding the Data game, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Sometimes it's cool to discriminate. (I mean, if Abercrombie does it...) There I said it. I'm sick and tired of people being all PC(A) about it. I...

Previously in this series: Understanding the beta distribution Understanding empirical Bayes estimation Understanding credible intervals Understanding the Bayesian approach to false discovery rates Understanding Bayesian A/B testing Understanding...

In the 1970s roughly 20 percent of all US college courses were taught by adjuncts. In recent years, especially since the global financial meltdown, the number of adjunct professors has exploded to the point where they might be considered a floating population...