January 01, 1933

Enigmas of Chance

Probability theory, random processes, statistical inference and machine learning

Upcoming Gigs: Bristol
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2010
Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection; Epidemics and Rumors in Complex Networks; Principles of Data Mining
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2009
Causation, Prediction, and Search; The Direction of Time; Misspecification Tests in Econometrics: The Lagrange Multiplier Principle and Other Approaches
Output Summary
Significance, Power, and the Will to Believe
Uniform Probability on Infinite Spaces Considered Harmful
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2009
Combinatorial Methods of Density Estimation
"Homophily, Contagion, Confounding: Pick Any Three"
"Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution" (Next Week at the Statistics Seminar)
"Some Things Statisticians Do at Google" (Next Week at the Statistics Seminar
The Shadow Price of Power
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2009
Bayesian Nonparametrics; Nonparametric Smoothing and Lack-of-Fit Tests
"Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics" (This Year at the DeGroot Lecture)
"High Dimensional Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding" (Next Week at the Statistics Seminar)
In re John Holland
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2009
Economic Modeling and Inference (full review); Estimation, Inference, and Specification Analysis (full review)
"Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs"
Miniature Pearl
Selecting Demanding Models (This Week at the Statistics Seminar)
"Two Problems on Stirring Processes --- and their Solutions" (This Week at the Statistics Seminar)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2009
36-350, Data Mining: Course Materials (Fall 2009)
"Econometric Shrinkage and Model Averaging" (Week-after-next at the Statistics Seminar)
Course Announcement: 36-350, Data Mining, Fall 2009
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2009
On the Certainty of the Bayesian Fortune-Teller
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2009
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2009
That Word Does Not Exist In Any Language
Next Week at the Statistics Seminar: Bayes, Bayes, Baked Beans, Sausage and Bayes
Next Week at the Statistics Seminar: "Methods and Models for Time-Dependent Relational Data"
Some Bayesian Finger-Puzzle Exercises
Special Function Invocation
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2009
Bayes < Darwin-Wallace
Chaos, Complexity and Inference: 2009 Syllabus
Chaos, Complexity and Inference: 2009 Course Announcement
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2008
36-350, Data-Mining: Self-Evaluation and Lessons Learned
Salins's SAT Sokaling
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2008
Return of the Cartogram
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2008
Statistics 36-350: Data Mining (Fall 2008)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2008
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2008
Chris Anderson: Aware of All Statistical Traditions (with bonus fall course announcement)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2008
Putting the CART before the Horse-Race
Solvitur ambulando
Behold the Masses (Next Week at the CMU Statistics Seminar)
First International Causal Prediction Contest: Your Ticket to Perdition
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2008
Glory and $500 (VIGRE-funded Undergraduate Research in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon, Spring 2008)
Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462): Lecture Notes
MSS. in Preparation, and One-Way Hiatus
Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462): Syllabus
Quantum Causal Inference
This Climate Goes to Eleven
Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462): Course Announcement
Upcoming Gigs: Newell-Simon Hall
g, a Statistical Myth
Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
Upcoming Gigs: New York
Too Much Information
Süleyman the Magnificent Scares the West into Rising (Part II of OH NOES! MUSLIMZ! DO NOT WANT!)
So You Think You Have a Power Law --- Well Isn't That Special?
Tao on Structure and Randomness
Glory and $1500 a Month (VIGRE-funded Summer Undergraduate Research in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon)
Eigenfactor (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System? Dept.)
"Statistical Methods for Modeling Dynamic Systems" Workshop
Armchair Conference-Blogging
Lecture Notes on Stochastic Processes (Advanced Probability II), Spring 2007
Absolutely Regular
Statistical Communication
Notes on "A Likelihood approach to Analysis of Network Data"
Again with the Statistics 754, Stochastic Processes
I Taught Him Everything He Knows
Data Mining (36-350) Lecture Notes, Weeks 4--7
"The Invisible Academy: Non-Linear Effects of Linear Learning"
Arrrrgh! Owwwwwww! Noooooooooo! (A Remark on Power Laws)
A Triumph of Socialist Realism
Data Mining (36-350) Lecture Notes, Weeks 1--3
Glory and $500 (VIGRE-funded Undergraduate Research in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon)
Frederick Mosteller Is Dead
The Awful Turkish Language
Statistical Arbitrage in the Sky
Problems in the Doctrine of Chances
The Absorbing Boundary
Friday Cat Blogging (Measure-Zero Exception to the Hiatus Issue of Non-Science-Geek Edition)
Statistical Network Analysis: Call for Papers
Graphs, Trees, Materialism, Fishing
Lecture Notes on Stochastic Processes (Advanced Probability II, 36-754)
"Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, Objectivity, Rationality": The Names Men Give to Their Mistakes
Statistics 754, Stochastic Processes (Advanced Probability II)
Gauss Is Not Mocked
Will There Be a Text in My Class?
A Thought I Have No Time to Pursue
Schooled by Selection
Our New Filtering Techniques Are Unstoppable!
Exponential Families and Hybridity (Why Oh Why Can't Physicists Learn Better Probability and Statistics, Part N)
The Little Grey Cells Get Their Act Together
This Is Your Brain on Statistical Complexity (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)
Heard About Detroit, Heard About Pittsburgh PA
E Pluribus Unum (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)
Why Oh Why Can't Physicists Learn Better Probability and Statistics?
Convex Risk Exegesis
Yet More Political Data Analysis (or: "There you go, bringing class into it again")
Boreal Sloth
Decided and Divided Americas
How to Change the World
Friday Cat Blogging (It Always Pays to Read the Annals of Improbable Research Carefully Issue of Science Geek Edition)
Paradox! Stone-Cold Paradox! Get It Before It's Warm!
Booze, Sex, and Death (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium: Dying, Lost in the Crowd Blues Edition)
William Dembski and the Discovery Institute, Renewing Science and Culture by Re-Inventing the Wheel
Speaking Truth to Power About Weblogs, or, How Not to Draw a Straight Line
Monday Exam Blogging
One Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Warblogging
"Now Barabbas was a publisher"
More Assorted Reading
Learning Your Way Around Gödel's Theorem
Political Factors
Intermittent Finds in Complex Systems and Stuff, No. 1
The Art of Noise
Free!!!
On a Talk by Persi Diaconis
Small Worlds and Morbid Amusements
What's Right with That Picture?
Try It, and Let's See What Happens, or, Great Minds

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