Three-Toed Sloth

Enigmas of Chance

Probability theory, random processes, statistical inference and machine learning

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2009

Ghosh and Ramamoorthi, Bayesian Nonparametrics; Hart, 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

Christensen and Kiefer, Economic Modeling and Inference (full review); White, 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