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Statistics of heart health
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 11, 2010
This is a true story that I tell my statistics students. When they hear it they tell me to listen to my doctor and my wife, both of whom have my best interests to heart, and to follow their advice. So, here it is. I have had checks on my blood pressure and tests for […]
Computation and the golden mean
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 8, 2010
This post is a slight variation on a theme of Cleve Moler, no rx founder of The MathWorks, from the first chapter of his book Experiments with MATLAB. Cleve uses MATLAB as the computational engine for his computational explorations. This makes sense because Cleve wrote the early versions of MATLAB to do numerical calculations, and […]
