AllenDowney

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   Small world graphs and scale-free networks: excerpt from Think Complexity(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   Third installment of Think Complexity, a new book about complex systems.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   25% of college freshmen have no religion, but the gender gap is growing.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   The philosophy of complexity: from a new O'Reilly book, Think Complexity.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   Excerpts from new O'Reilly book on Complexity Science.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   Crackpot science, Bayesian estimation and the Variability Hypothesis.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   Are first babies lighter? An example of multiple regression in Python and R.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   A Bayesian model to estimate the age of a renal tumor.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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   New version of the Girl Named Florida: now with more Bayes.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    World's hardest probability problem: the red-haired girl named Florida(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    Why red hair is funny: a Bayesian analysis.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    by AllenDowney 15y ago

    Fixed. Thanks!
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    All your Bayes are belong to us: fun Bayes's Theorem problems.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    Fun with Bayes's Theorem: a few of my favorite problems. Solutions next week(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    A new version of the Monty Hall problem, now with more Bayesian estimation.(allendowney.blogspot.com)

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    by AllenDowney 15y ago

    I read the first article more carefully, and it inspired this new blog post: http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/08/jimmy-nut-company-pr...
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    by AllenDowney 15y ago

    Sorry! It's really not meant to be a trick. The book is under a CC license. I provide the PDF version at Green Tea Press, the LaTeX source for anyone who wants to make a modified version, and a not very good HTML version (some of the mat
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    by AllenDowney 15y ago

    Very interesting. I certainly agree with the idea from the first article, on the importance of data, and from the second article, on the usefulness of simulation.
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    by AllenDowney 15y ago

    Rather than get into a catalog of tests, I take the approach that "There is only one test." I wrote more about it here: http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/05/there-is-only-one-te...
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    by AllenDowney 16y ago

    Thanks! I am hoping to get back to the Complexity book soon. I want to finish the section on agent-based modeling (and I need to remove some of the stats material that I poached for Think Stats). Clojure looks interesting, but I don't kno
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    by AllenDowney 16y ago

    I tried to keep the code simple -- no Python esoterica, only a few objects. So it should be easy to pick up the Python as you go along. But let me know whether that turns out to be true.
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    by AllenDowney 16y ago

    Thanks for the kind words about the book! If you are interested in this topic, there is a video of me giving a talk about it at greenteapress.com/semaphores. The thread simulator I demonstrate in the talk is available from allendowney.com