Of interest links

• Normal quantile plot info.
• Wharton MBA projects.
• A technical reference for the class material, (Hildebrand).
• Presidents can win lotteries too
• Death penalty dataset
• Occam's Razor
• From the author of Liar's Poker
• The value of focus groups, quantitative vs. qualitative!
• Are you suffering from PAREIDOLIA , yet?
• What Franklin had to say on the appropriate error rates for the judicial system.
• And Chief Wiggums from The Simpsons "I'd rather let 5000 guilty men go free, than chase after them."
• Statistical hypothesis testing and the judicial system.
• The file drawer problem.
• The solution: a journal of insignificant results.
• A thoughtful file drawer article from the New Yorker.
• When clinical trials go bad, or how you might behave if your compensation were highly correlated with your company's stock price.
• Independence and the consequence of not understanding it.
• An interesting view on the value of modeling.
• Models or experts?
• P-values in Business Week!
• Asteroids, Black Swans and the Empirical Rule
• Biting the bullet and collecting data.
• Harrah's and probabilities, but not the gambling ones.
• Three sigma events in physics.
• Correlation and causation and Google.
• Physics' 5-sigma rule.
• The best way to beat a lottery..
• Higgs and 5 sigma.
• A/B testing.
• A/B testing results for web pages.
• More on false positives in science from the Economist.
• Survivorship bias and the Second World War.
• Multiplicity and its implications for research.
• Big Data Big mistakes.
• Big Data stumbles.
• Problems with backtesting stock picking strategies.
• World cup model courtesy of Goldman.