The lovely Perthshire hideaway of Straloch. #Scotland

I couldn’t possibly be drawn on what polling station story made me think of the ego and the ID.

I can find a use of the term 'Variance Inflation Factor' in a paper of Marquardt's from 1970. Does anyone know of an earlier example?

'The sequencing of the human genome has led to many gee whiz studies.' Saying of Confuseus #badomics

This evening we went for a stroll up W & E Craiglockart. Views of Arthur’s Seat & N Berwick Law beyond. #Edinburgh

Just a wee evening stroll along The Union Canal #Edinburgh

Publication date May 23rd.
Shout now for review copies, features, interviews, etc.

Early days of computing. I would start a thread but…

That thing when you clearly tick on the conference abstract ‘oral only’ and they offer you a poster. ISCB News #ISCB45

“As you get older, your body mess index may increase.” Sayings of Confuseus

“You will find that meta-analyses can be published all year round and not just when the weather is summery.” Sayings of Confuseus

'your columnist is a statistical totalitarian, who holds the radical view that statistical methods should be applied to everything, even statistics..' Guernsey McPearson senns.uk/wprose.html#Mo…

Optimal allocation strategies in platform trials with and without the use of non-concurrent controls - joint work with Marta Bofill Roig, Ekkehard Glimm and Tobias Mielke, now available open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… EU-PEARL Project

A reminder that you can simulate your own Naive Numpty Trap statistics by downloading this spreadsheet senns.uk/NNTs.xlsx

I think my impromptu “The Perfect Balance Fallacy” lecture went down rather well.

Another fine walk from Church Stretton today. #hiking #Shropshire #OODSExeter

It’s the time of year. For the last 25 years friends from the 1970s ⁦University of Exeter⁩ Out of Doors Society have been meeting. This year we are in Church Stretton. Today we have been #hiking on the Long Mynd #Shropshire

#OTD 1922 RA Fisher publishes 'On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics'. He first read it to RSS Royal Statistical Society on 17 Nov 1921. It ushered in modern mathematical statistics & marked a seismic shift in statistics which until then lacked a unifying structure. 1/6

At Powys Castle today. #Wales #Cymru

“Hiawatha, who at college
Majored in applied statistics,
Consequently felt entitled
To instruct his fellow man
In any subject whatsoever”
Time for this classic again. columbia.edu/~to166/hiawath…