Beth and I were discussing a statistics problem the other day, and it turns out that no one had ever explained to her how to do a multiple-variable linear regression. (Possibly because it doesn't come up all that often ( Read more... )

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte ( Read more... )

A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Andrew W. Lo & A. Craig MacKinlay ( Read more... )

The mean age of our children is about 3 years. The variance of that is about 3 square years.

Moneyball, by Michael Lewis ( Read more... )

Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data, by Ann E. Watkins, Richard L. Scheaffer and George W. Cobb ( Read more... )