statistics

if an expert witness gives a ludicrous expert opinion which results in a conviction, then should they be held professionally accountable for the statement merely because they said it in good faith? does the fact that a conviction resulted play any role? these questions inspired by case in the...

I wrote this today http://www.statisticool.com/streamstat.htm All well-known stuff. My question at the bottom of the page- does anyone know? Seems fruitful, especially for Internet, genome, and satellite data.

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and finally put up a webpage on it http://www.statisticool.com/jrefchallengestats.htm Does anyone believe that after 1,000+ tests that are statistical in nature are carried out, that anyone will win by chance? This applies not only to the...

If m people pick a random number between 1 and n, what are the chances of 2 people matching? 3 people? k people? Is there a genearlized formula for m, n, and k? Thanks!

I found an interesting site while I was browsing for some information during a thread debate. While I dropped out of the debate because of time constraints, I wanted to share the site here. It's got some pretty interesting information, although I can't validate it's accuracy. :)

I am interested in finding out more about the $1,000,000 challenge history. For example, how many applicants have there been? Of those, how many were involved in a preliminary test? Are the records of these preliminary tests a matter of public record anywhere? I know Kramer has documented some...

I was reading through Volume 3 of Feynman's Lectures on Physics and he made the following remark on the correlation between a particle's spin and whether it is a boson or fermion: Which got me wondering, has anybody since then come up with a simpler explanation of this fact, or are you damned...

One of the things I half-believed, when I was still "open minded" about certain things, was that I could influence, or at least "predict" Simpsons episodes. Not reliably, but I would think of a Simpsons episode, and it would come on that night or the next. I thankfully came to realise that: A)...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department acknowledged Thursday it was wrong in reporting terrorism declined worldwide last year, a finding used to boost one of President Bush's chief foreign policy claims -- success in countering terror. Instead, both the number of incidents and the toll in...

This newspaper article discusses the quality of autos, and mentions their defect rate as "complaints per 100 vehicles." Summing it up, it shows: Toyota - 101 Hyundai - 102 GM - 120 DCX - 123 It looks like everyone is bound to have at least one complaint with a new car, so it's hard for me to...

Browsing through the BMJ as you do when i came across this article. Quite interesting. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1424

Hi, everyone! I am analyzing data for a music therapy study, and I am having problems finding the right kinds of statistical tests to apply to my data. I figure there's got to be someone here who knows something about this stuff... and on my day off I am using all the resources I got...

So, at lunch today, I decided to see the effects of recent tax cuts to the tax distribution: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/01in01ts.xls http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/01in02ts.xls Top 1 Top 5 Top 10 Top 25 Top 50 Adjusted gross income share (percentage): 1986 11.30 24.11...

OK, I should be able to do this but I can't. How's about some of you statistical geniuses give me a hand? The variable is a simple yes/no. So for one trial, the probability of correct answer is 0.50. The probability of being correct both times in two trials is 0.25, right? I need to know...

Is it true the claim of those who made the clairvoyance test at Princeton University (supposedly repeated at Friburgo and Duke Universities), that as they took a BIG set of tries , ("millions of guesses") the expected distribution of hits of those trying to guess the outcome of the next virtual...

As I've sad (and demonstrated) before, statistics is not exactly my strong suit. So I would appreciate some help with this... With a standard, shuffled deck of 52 playing cards, the odds of getting dealt the A/K/Q/J/10 of spades, in that order, is calculated as: one in (52 * 51 * 50 * 49 *...

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=741 Department of Justice Statistics : Violent Crime - http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/abstract/viocrm.htm Violence Against Women - http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/abstract/femvied.htm

Alexander Sharp's comment first of all annoyed me, then I realised he isn't actually saying anything, merely abusing a statistic. Even if the British population consisted of 60 million Einstein clones, just under 30 million of those Einstein clones would be considered to have below average...

No particular reason for starting this thread, other than that I found this site, www.adherents.com, rather interesting. In particular I found this interesting: