Category: Statistics and Probability

• Black Mathematicians Thread

  Today, I did wind up finishing the thread on Black Mathematicians. I had a nasty flare up, which is why I finished 2 days late. However, late is better than never! I covered 28 Black Mathematicians, 14 women, and 14 men. All were cis. As it turns out, it is incredibly difficult to find nonbinary…

  Merlin Star

  March 3, 2023

  Autism, Mathematics, Race, Racism, Statistics and Probability

  Academia, Black History, Black History Month, Black mathematicians, inlclusion, mathematicians, Mathematics, Racism

• Why survey design mistakes from statisticians are so common: Part 1

  This article is mostly adapted from a Mastodon thread I recently made about the issue. If you follow me on Mastodon, this will mostly be a repeat. Anyways without further ado, let’s talk about survey design and why mistakes from statisticians are more common than they should be. Survey design is the study of making…

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  December 2, 2022

  Bias, Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Survey Design Series

  Bias, survey design

• My general plans for my portfolio

  I have been thinking about how about I am going to do my portfolio. My general plans are to showcase my skills in SAS, SQL, R, and Python and have a technical explanation as well as a nontechnical explanation. Additionally, I plan to have a specific subsection describing how I would tackle on an issue…

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  November 27, 2022

  Computer Science, Data Analysis, Things I am working on