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Categories Science, Statistics

A Map of Univariate Distributions

My roommate recently showed me this map of univariate distributions and I think it’s awesome. Here is a snapshot: It visualizes the relationship between different…

30. June 202030. June 2020
Categories Science

On Negative Probabilities

In 1987 Richard Feynman wrote an article arguing in favor for negative probabilities. The question should not be: “do they exist?” but rather: “are they…

30. May 202028. May 2020
Categories Health

Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?

Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…

10. February 20208. March 2020
Categories Statistics

Friday, 31.01.2020 – The Distribution Zoo

Link of the day: The Distribution Zoo This is an online app that allows you to conveniently visualize different distributions and gives you the mean…

31. January 202030. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Statistics

Thursday, 30.01.2020 – Can Statisticians Forecast Better than A guy With A Pencil?

Link of the day: Delphi Epicast I am currently working on a master thesis that tries to predict cases of Ebola in Congo. The models…

30. January 202029. January 2020
Categories R, Statistics

R – Two histograms in One Plot

Recently I was doing Bayesian analysis and wanted to visualize the prior and the posterior distribution of one of my parameters in one plot to…

17. January 202015. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Sunday, 22.12.2019 – How Robust is the t-Test?

Link of the day: The t-test and its robustness to non-normality. The t-Test usually assumes normality for observations in the groups to be compared. But…

22. December 201923. December 2019
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