Joe Blitzstein @stat110 Twitter profile

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

6 years

New edition of my probability book with Jessica Hwang is out! Read it FREE online at

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

9 years

Major update to the #probability cheatsheet! More visual, new material: http://t.co/YoqOMEbYiv CC @wzchen #stat110 http://t.co/Vx7nDjrzZ6

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Student: I have no idea how to do this problem. Me: Did you try some simple and extreme examples? Student: No, I don't have time to try that. Me: You don't have time NOT to try that.

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Joe Blitzstein

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There's no such thing as a "quick question" in statistics.

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The probability of being killed given that one encounters a shark is not the same as the probability that a shark did it given that one is killed. See

Conditional Probability Explained: Visual Intuition

In the town of Bayesville, Jimmy grapples with a medical issue – and how to update his probabilities based on evidence.Probability animation from Prof. Joe B...

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Why I would rather encounter a shark in the wild than a mosquito: #MosquitoWeek

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YAY!!! So much joy and relief after 4 nightmarish years of a racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-science, authoritarian, mendacious, narcissistic, corrupt sociopath as president. A huge amount needs to be fixed and improved, but at least there is a restoration of decency.

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Joe Blitzstein

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Probability as you’ve never tasted it. Be our guest for #stat110x (vegetarians welcome too). Starts next Thursday!

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Joe Blitzstein

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The Stat dept here is 60 years old. We had more Stat majors graduate this year than in the first 50 years combined.

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Joe Blitzstein

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I'm grateful that so many students want to learn probability with me (Stat 110 is undergrad level, 210 is grad level)! But I'm also relieved to have fallen short of 900 students total, mindful of the old saying, "When 900 students you reach, look as good, you will not."

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Joe Blitzstein

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I support @daniela_witten that @AmstatNews Fisher Lecture be renamed. Fisher was a virulent racist and eugenicist. Hard in this context to fully separate his scientific ideas from his personal ideas; he was even a PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS! Shouldn’t be honored as a hero of the field

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Thank you Batman for giving a guest lecture in Stat 110 today! (He was returning a favor since I helped him solve some treacherous probability puzzles that the Riddler had posed him.)

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by @SherlockpHolmes and @wolfgangkhuber is one of the most beautiful and useful statistics books I've ever seen. And I don't even work on biology (thought I want to learn more). Conflict of interest disclosure: Susan was one of my mentors at Stanford.

Modern Statistics for Modern Biology

If you are a biologist and want to get the best out of the powerful methods of modern computational statistics, this is your book.

web.stanford.edu

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Joe Blitzstein

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I was thinking of making an audiobook version of my probability book, until coming across this...

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Joe Blitzstein

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The epic story of probability: Trailer for my free @HarvardOnline probability course, coming this July to @edXOnline . Sign up at #stat110x

Introduction to Probability | HarvardX on edX

A comprehensive introduction to probability as a language and a set of tools for understanding statistics, science, risk, and randomness.Find out more: https...

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Joe Blitzstein

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Looking forward to teaching statistical inference with Susan Murphy this spring! But there's no book we're excited about using. Too many are full of context-free problems like "Consider the model f_theta(y) = blah. Find the MLE of theta." Do you have cool examples to suggest?

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Joe Blitzstein

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4 years

I had 92 students attend my Zoom office hours tonight... definitely one advantage of online, considering that I can barely fit 6 students in my physical office, even without social distancing!

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Joe Blitzstein

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Last night I dreamed that I got to meet @Lin_Manuel , and we were excited to collaborate on a musical about the life of a statistician. First sweet dream I can remember having in this nightmarish year. Hoping so much for some good news in 3 days...

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Joe Blitzstein

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Got a bit too excited in class explaining an example with P(A|B,C) where A is the event that there is a fire, until I realized that shouting “fire” in a crowded lecture hall is not the best idea.

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I taught John Snow's work on cholera in Stat 111 a few days ago, to show the importance of data quality and causal inference. Couldn't resist saying that people around him thought he was crazy for thinking cholera was waterborne, that they said "You know nothing, John Snow."

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Joe Blitzstein

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Big picture for my course with Susan Murphy and (when not on sabbatical) @shephard_neil . Prediction and causal inference are center stage, along with classical statistical inference. Probability, randomization, computing, and Bayesian and frequentist thinking come together!

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Joe Blitzstein

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R.I.P. Raymond Smullyan, incredible logician, philosopher, puzzle writer, magician, pianist, author. Here's my collection of Smullyan books.

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Conditional expectation in 6 minutes. With stacked water bottle charts, and two of the most useful identities in all of statistics! #stat110x

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Joe Blitzstein

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Stat 110 (Probability) has 579 students this semester. Third biggest course at Harvard this semester, after @cs50 and Ec 10. Should be fun.

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

4 years

This is evil and unconscionable

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@ReichlinMelnick

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This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.

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Joe Blitzstein

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I read the horrifying 65 page filing Brave, credible, and devastatingly important — and shows utterly vile conduct by Comaroff for years, and systemically broken investigatory processes at Harvard (slow, incompetent, and failing to protect victims).

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Joe Blitzstein

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Video of the Pickard Lecture by @minebocek is now online! A wonderful talk, with lots of food for thought about course design and teaching statistics and data science.

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@askdrstats @BaumerBen @AmeliaMN @jo_hardin47 @StatGarrett @minebocek @MineDogucu @hglanz @jtleek @rafalab @JennyBryan Less: ways of computing p-values, hypothesis testing, fuss over whether to divide by n or n-1 in sample var, tedious calculations More: thinking about data quality, sampling, likelihood, bias-variance tradeoff, simulation, visualization, discussion of common misconceptions

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Joe Blitzstein

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My colleague Herman Chernoff is turning 100 this year! We're having a centennial celebration on May 5 at Harvard: Hope to see a lot of you there!

Herman Chernoff's Centennial Celebration

Join the Harvard Department of Statistics for a symposium celebrating the 100th birthday of Emeritus Faculty Herman Chernoff and his legacy.

www.eventbrite.com

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Joe Blitzstein

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Statisticians are called weird for terms like Law of the Unconscious Statistician (LOTUS), but I just heard that actuaries use "Darth Vader Rule" for the fact that the expectation of a nonnegative r.v. is the integral of its survival function.

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Joe Blitzstein

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The 19 is easy to explain. What's hard to explain is how a racist, misogynistic, idiotic sociopath became President of the United States.

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@Acyn

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The President uses the term “Kung Flu” again and says “COVID, COVID-19, COVID, I said what’s the 19. COVID-19, some people can’t explain the 19.”

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Joe Blitzstein

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Welcome to Bayesville, population 2000. #soulofstatistics #stat110x

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Joe Blitzstein

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Awwww, thanks so much @zacharylipton ! I'm not sure it is worth the risk to the space-time continuum, but happy to trade with you some probability and inference knowledge for some help with understanding deep learning. :)

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I want to go back in time to take undergrad probability & statistical inference from @stat110 . Check out his wildly popular videos on probability: & his charismatic textbook:

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Joe Blitzstein

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Trump at debate in 2016, on whether he would accept result of the election: "I'll keep you in suspense." Trump today: won't accept result of the election, says to the domestic terrorists he incited "We love you. You're very special." But keep in mind Clinton used private email.

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Xiao-Li Meng, one of the deepest thinkers and most inspiring people I know, is (at long last) on Twitter! @XiaoLiMeng1

Xiao-Li Meng

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Stats + Stories: Introducing The Harvard Data Science Review

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Joe Blitzstein

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@rushworth_a I really like this ring toss analogy by @EpiEllie :

Having confidence in confidence intervals

An epidemiology teaching resource

medium.com

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Often the best way to resolve a problem is to re-solve it.

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Joe Blitzstein

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I'm not a legal expert... can Biden simply "hereby claim" Michigan to counter Trump's "hereby claim"? If both assert "hereby claims", is there some system in place for determining who gets Michigan's electoral votes?

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Joe Blitzstein

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Congratulations to @minebocek , the 2018 Pickard Lecturer! A biennial award/lecture at Harvard for teaching statistics, in memory of David Pickard. Check out for previous Pickard lectures by @ProbabilityProf , @HansRosling , @DebAtStat , and @askdrstats !

How to Discuss Statistics on Live Television | Inaugural Pickard...

Jeffrey RosenthalUniversity of TorontoWith the success of his book "Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities", the speaker conducted numerous ...

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Joe Blitzstein

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My probability course Stat 110 is now on iTunes U, w/ 34 lecture videos and 250 problems w/ solutions! http://t.co/JyaoAAYz

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@economeager Yep, they seem like they should be mostly harmless but they're very treacherous! Check out Larry Wasserman's post "Mixture Models: The Twilight Zone of Statistics" (great title!) and this paper by @AviFeller , Greif, Miratrix, Pillai

Weak separation in mixture models and implications for principal...

Principal stratification is a widely used framework for addressing post-randomization complications. After using principal stratification to define causal effects of interest, researchers are...

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Joe Blitzstein

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The entire Statland saga in one handy playlist: story proofs, P(A|B) vs. P(B|A), discrete distributions, interplay between discrete & continuous, expectation and linearity, conditional expectation, and Markov chains, animated in about 5 min each! #stat110x

Introduction to Probability | HarvardX on edX

A comprehensive introduction to probability as a language and a set of tools for understanding statistics, science, risk, and randomness.Find out more: https...

www.youtube.com

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@medburnbook Data, randomness, uncertainty are everywhere.

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Stat 110: The Book is now out! http://t.co/oALVxkunW6 Currently 20% off. Probability, R, MCMC, paradoxes, treasure maps,.... @CRC_MathStats

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“It is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them.” - Fred Mosteller #StatQuotes

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@ReginaNuzzo How could it not be a "sample of statisticians"?

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RIP Alex Trebek, my favorite game show host of all time (along with Monty Hall)

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Congratulations @BaumerBen on the 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Boston Chapter of the ASA! He is giving a talk "The New Roaring Twenties: Imagining statistics and data science curricula in the coming decade" at Harvard on Oct 7:

The New Roaring Twenties (Outstanding Teaching Award Lecture)

The New Roaring Twenties: Imagining statistics and data science curricula in the coming decade

www.eventbrite.com

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@RodrigoRivr @zacharylipton @larrywasserman Thanks Rodrigo! There is a free online version and many resources via

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@seanjtaylor Bayes' rule (extremely simple proof, extremely deep consequences), Stein's paradox (extremely clever proofs, extremely deep consequences)

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Free tours of Statland begin today! Five cities, plus river and aerial excursions. Thank you to @edXOnline @HarvardOnline @CRC_MathStats @Harvard for support. #probability #stat110x

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Charles Murray promotes racist pseudoscience, not data science. For data science it is essential to think about data quality, potential biases in the data, and data ethics.

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My probability course Stat 110 at @Harvard is now on youtube at #probability #statistics

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I always liked Mosteller's quote "It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without statistics." But Trump's thousands of lies give many counterexamples: he lies with equal ease both with statistics and without statistics.

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Trump explains that the US coronavirus numbers are actually good -- if you take out the hardest hit states

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Fundamental theorem of the reproducibility crisis: N = $ you have / $ per sample -- @jtleek #JSM2017

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@Harvard needs to allow a 3rd party grievance procedure and to completely rethink how such cases are handled (and not just create some new committee that will spend years debating what went wrong here and then issue a report that will mostly be ignored).

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@willemsleegers Which do you care about more, sample variance or sample SD? As soon as you take the sqrt of the unbiased sample var it will be biased anyway (by Jensen). Also, for Normal data, dividing by n-1 is unbiased, dividing by n is the MLE, but dividing by n+1 is optimal (w.r.t. MSE)!

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View from just outside my office

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Visual interpretation of Universality of the Uniform (a.k.a. the Probability Integral Transform) by @brianczhang : Brian made this 5 years ago as a Stat 110 TA, but students are still finding it useful!

A Visual Explanation for Universality of the Uniform

In Statistics 110 at Harvard, Professor Joe Blitzstein introduced a concept called Universality of the Uniform, also known as the Probability Integral Transf...

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@StuartBuck1 They call it an "example", but it is a horrible example. And doesn't make sense, how are the terms partitioned up? I was surprised to see data science on the "easy to learn" side, but guess that assumes the "hard to learn" subjects of math, statistics, ML are excluded from DS...

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Joe Blitzstein

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I enjoyed #JSM2010 in Vancouver, but made the mistake of almost never leaving the convention center except to go to the hotel. Rectifying that at #JSM2018 . Just went to Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, which was amazing! Highly recommended (unless you’re very afraid of heights)

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@Notawful I think it's just because a hundred years ago Student (Gosset) and Fisher happened to use the notation z for what is now called a z statistic, and likewise for t and the t statistic. Statisticians are usually not great at naming things (the bootstrap is a notable counterexample).

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Looking forward to the David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture by @minebocek this Friday, on data science course design and pedagogy! Title, abstract, and more information at: If you are in the Boston area, you are welcome to attend!

Pickard Award Lecture and Reception: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

statistics.fas.harvard.edu

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One of my favorite books ever. Congratulations Aki on finishing this!

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RIP to my friend and @Harvard colleague Prof. Rob Lue, a visionary not only in biology education but also in the interface of science & art in his leadership at @DerekBokCenter @HarvardOnline @TheHDSR & more. Check out his Inner Life of the Cell animation

Inner Life of the Cell with Music (BioVisions)

One of the most viewed science animations in history, the Inner Life of the Cell follows a white blood cell’s movement along the endothelium and its response...

www.youtube.com

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@ben_golub There are some fun ones in

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He needs to be fired, for the massive harm he has done, to prevent him from doing more such harm, and to avoid sending the message that such conduct is acceptable. Tenure is meant to protect academic freedom, not to protect harassment and abuse.

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Joe Blitzstein

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Welcome @shephard_neil to Twitter! Neil is Harvard's first ever joint Econ-Stat professor, a great financial econometrician, and has had a huge impact on statistics and data science at Harvard since arriving from Oxford 5 years ago.

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I enjoy the many insightful, funny, and insightful-and-funny tweets of @kareem_carr . Let’s support thoughtful, respectful discussion — terrible that there are so many racists, trolls, and racist trolls attacking him.

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

@kareem_carr

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Thought it might be useful to collect screenshots of people who brought my race into the discussion of my thread even though I’m just talking about arithmetic. It helps to bring context to the underlying reasons for the objections to what I’m saying and who’s saying it.

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My favorite musical is Into the Woods. One of my favorite probability puzzles is the Monty Hall problem. Today I learned that Joanna Gleason, who played the Baker's Wife in the original Broadway production, is Monty Hall's daughter.

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@hadleywickham Congratulations Hadley! Extremely well-deserved, and a sign that the field is moving in the direction of "impact t he world by being useful" that you wrote about at

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Fireworks to end the penultimate day of #JSM2018 . This is the Disneyland of Stat conferences.

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The data science process: ask a question <-> get data <-> explore data <-> model data <-> communicate & visualize! http://t.co/tJPAGVfNku

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@matt_blackwell iPad + Apple Pencil + Notability, with interaction from chat and breakout rooms: good Blazing through hundreds of PowerPoint slides on Zoom: bad

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@economeager Stigler gives some great intuition. On p. 150 he talks about why we need at least 3 observations.

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@stevenstrogatz Happy birthday! I hope the twin prime conjecture holds, so there is no theoretical upper bound to these happy milestones.

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The Efron-Morris baseball example of Stein's paradox and shrinkage, as in their wonderful Scientific American paper Beautiful, surprising, and useful at the same time.

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Disgusting and disgraceful; so sorry you experienced that. @Harvard needs to be much better about handling such cases, regardless of tenure

Jade d'Alpoim Guedes 🇵🇹

@JadeArchaeobot

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This is the email I received from Gary Urton. I was a second to last year graduate student and he was chair at the time. Harvard, this time please don’t say there “ was no evidence for violation of policy”.

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Didn’t sound tongue in cheek to me. But in any case, it’s either idiotic and cruel, or idiotic and deadly.

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Trump tonight: “When you do testing to that extent, you are gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people: ‘Slow the testing down, please.’” Health officials say this is the exact opposite of what the US should be doing right now.

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@ProbFact TWO proofs of this in one tweet: 1. MGF of Pois(a) plus indep Pois (b) is product of MGFs: exp(a(e^t-1))*exp(b(e^t-1))=exp((a+b)(e^t-1)), the Pois(a+b) MGF. 2. In a Poisson process of rate 1, # arrivals in (0,a+b) = # in (0,a) + # in [a,a+b) and # in (0,t) is Pois(t) for all t.

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Thank you @KLdivergence for your brave, important, and deeply disturbing post at . Horrific and shameful behavior, and the culture needs to change to prevent this from continuing to happen.

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My favorite quote on theory and practice, by the great Donald Knuth (talking about CS, but applies just as well to Statistics):

Theory and practice

Donald Knuth explains how he combines theory and practice: This has always been the main credo of my professional life. I have always tried to develop theories that shed light on the practical things...

www.johndcook.com

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@shephard_neil Until a few years ago, his office was across from mine and he came to the office almost every day! He even asked me questions about #rstats , in his 90s, since he was coding up some simulations.

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For an exploration of John Snow's work on the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, I recommend by @AlyssaAGoodman and @HarvardOnline .

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@kbarley66 The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class (Steele), Applied Linear Algebra (Boyd and Vandenberghe) - free via , Enumerative Combinatorics (Stanley) - free version of Vol. 1 via , Concrete Mathematics (Graham, Knuth, Patashnik)

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@kareem_carr That's disgusting and absurd. Sorry you have to deal with abusive comments like that.

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Awesome talk by @askdrstats for 2016 Pickard Lecture: Big Ideas to Help Statistics Students Learn to Think with Data

Nick Horton: 2016 David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture Series

“Big Ideas to Help Statistics Students Learn to Think with Data” by Nick Horton, the 2016 David K. Pickard Memorial Lecturer

www.youtube.com

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One of my favorite books, congratulations @rlmcelreath on finishing the new edition!

Richard McElreath 🦔

@rlmcelreath

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Statistical Rethinking 2nd edition, scheduled for March 2020. Here's a summary of changes, with table of contents at the bottom.

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CDC Director: It would be “very disappointing” if schools use CDC reopening guidelines as guidelines for reopening. I mean, what did you think those reopening guidelines were? Guidelines for reopening or something?

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Looking forward to a short course by the amazing @minebocek on using R Shiny to build interactive web apps! If you'd like to join, you can sign up at

Shiny Essentials (ASA Traveling Course)

Use Shiny to create interactive web apps from R.

www.eventbrite.com

Boston Chapter of the ASA

@BostonChapASA

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Short Course on the R package Shiny Instructor: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh Date and Time: October 16th and October 23rd, 1-4pm Location: Virtual Registration:

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Powerful probability and puzzling paradoxes in Python: http://t.co/cBtwLKLBiG Great IPython notebook by Peter Norvig

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I've been accused of making up too many acronyms, but differentiation under the integral sign is so cool and useful that it really deserves one. So here it is: DUThIS (Differentiation Under The Integral Sign).

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Great materials from a survival analysis workshop by Dave Harrington: … Data sets that go along with the lectures and labs: … #rstats #survivalanalysis

GitHub - dave-harrington/eventtimedata

Contribute to dave-harrington/eventtimedata development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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. @Amstat_Lara Here I am with 400 plushies. Thanks @NausicaaDist !

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There couldn't be a more promising field than statistics in 2015, a combination of logic, philosophy, math, computation, and science! -Efron

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@shephard_neil Thanks Neil! I'm happy to be able to share the joys of probability, locally at @Harvard and globally via and my @HarvardOnline course

Statistics 110: Probability

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

5 years

@heyitsmehugo @minebocek @BecomingDataSci Check out Berger, "Could Fisher, Jeffreys and Neyman Have Agreed on Testing?" and Christensen, "Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, and Bayes"

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

4 years

The epic story of SVD. It is a crime that most linear algebra courses don’t cover it.

Women in Statistics and Data Science

@WomenInStat

4 years

So yesterday I asked you all what you wanted to hear about from me this week, and one answer stood out from all the others: the SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD). 1/

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

6 years

Wald's bullet hole example, beautifully explained by @davidmcraney at and @JSEllenberg at and less beautifully by me at

Joseph Blitzstein: "The Soul of Statistics" | Harvard Thinks Big 4

Joe Blitzstein teaches the popular statistics class Stat 110, which provides a comprehensive introduction to probability as a medium to understand statistics...

www.youtube.com

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

10 years

Post by @wzchen : The Only Probability Cheatsheet You'll Ever Need http://t.co/xs09hXGs4z

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Joe Blitzstein

@stat110

7 years

And, for the first time, over 100 Statistics majors plus minors graduating this year.

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