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An Introduction To Calling Bullshit: Learning To Think Outside The Black Box, Jevin D. West, Carl T. Bergstrom
An Introduction To Calling Bullshit: Learning To Think Outside The Black Box, Jevin D. West, Carl T. Bergstrom
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Bergstrom, Carl T. and Jevin D. West. 2020. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. (New York: Random House) 336 pp. ISBN 978-0525509202.
While statistical methods receive greater attention, the art of critically evaluating information in everyday life more commonly depends on thinking outside the black box of the algorithm. In this piece we introduce readers to our book and associated online teaching materials—for readers who want to more capably call “bullshit” or to teach their students to do the same.
Optimization In Non-Parametric Survival Analysis And Climate Change Modeling, Iuliana Teodorescu
Optimization In Non-Parametric Survival Analysis And Climate Change Modeling, Iuliana Teodorescu
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Many of the open problems of current interest in probability and statistics involve complicated data
sets that do not satisfy the strong assumptions of being independent and identically distributed. Often,
the samples are known only empirically, and making assumptions about underlying parametric
distributions is not warranted by the insufficient information available. Under such circumstances,
the usual Fisher or parametric Bayes approaches cannot be used to model the data or make predictions.
However, this situation is quite often encountered in some of the main challenges facing statistical,
data-driven studies of climate change, clinical studies, or financial markets, to name a few. …