Understanding gamma function

R User Group Sponsorship

Revolution’s 2014 R User Group Sponsorship Program Begins October 1st! If you are interested, have a look at:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/revolutions-2014-r-user-group-sponsorship-program-begins-october-1st/

Waiting in One Line or Multiple Lines

As a statistician, what is better, having a single queue or multiple queues, in regard with waiting time? Have a look at the following link:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/waiting-in-one-line-or-multiple-lines/

Understanding Simpson's Paradox

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in aggregate, but when you zoom out too far, you could miss details or within-category variation. Sometimes when you zoom in, you see a completely opposite trend of what you saw overall. This is known as Simpson's Paradox.

http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/19/a-visual-explanation-of-simpsons-paradox/

Keeping it in the family

Read how children have followed their famous parents into Statistics at:

http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/5247481/Keeping-it-in-the-family-How-children-have-followed-their-famous-parents-into-st.html

Unlawful primes

How small can a description of a large prime number be? 

If you have just zeros and two ones, then the only primes of that form are 11 and 101. If there are three ones then it is divisible by three. But what about four ones? Have a look at:

http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/114911

The Ultimatum Game

The ultimatum game was first presented to the research community in 1982 in an article entitled 'An Experimental Analysis of Ultimatum Bargaining'. The article discusses interesting results regarding the subjects' natural reactions and strategies for bargaining:

http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/5242381/The-ultimate-experiment.html

The Happiest Emoticons

Clearly, a :) is happier than a :( but what about a :-* and a :-D ? Or a :-| and a :-o ? In this post the author attempts to rank emoticons in order of how happy someone has to be to use each one:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-happiest-emoticons/

A Lesson on Derivatives

"A Lesson on Derivatives” by Sungkon Chang featured in the October 2012 issue of The American Mathematical Monthly.

Medical Research is Better Because of Statistics

Without Statistics, lab mice would have nothing to do..
http://www.statistics2013.org/2013/09/10/medical-research-is-better-because-of-statistics/