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by trthatcher 5y ago
While I'm not clear why you would want to go back to an undergrad given your education, I would look for programs with names like "Computational Mathematics" or "Computational Science". I earned a Bachelor of Mathem
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by trthatcher 5y ago
I quit my job in May 2019... before the pandemic started. I was working as a senior data analyst at an insurance company in Canada. The work was boring, thankless and pretty exhausting but I was paid well (for a data analyst, anyway). There
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by trthatcher 6y ago
Data Scientist | Equitable Life of Canada ( https://www.equitable.ca ) | Waterloo, ON | Full-time | Onsite or Remote (within South-Western Ontario) Equitable Life is a small mutual life insurance company (~700 people) based in Wat
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by trthatcher 7y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Depends, open to discussion Technologies: Python, Julia, some JavaScript, SQL Résumé/CV: https://thatcher.dev/resume.pdf Email: tim @ my domain above I'm
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by trthatcher 7y ago
Excel is a piece of software that I would absolutely not hesitate to pay for... but I'm unfortunately stuck with LibreOffice. I used to work in an insurance company on an actuarial pricing team where the preferred tool was Excel (the m
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Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality (US Adults)(aje.oxfordjournals.org)
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by trthatcher 13y ago
You have the right idea. You're assuming an underlying model for the data. You have a test statistic( that estimates a model parameter) and you have a hypothesis regarding a parameter. The p-value is the probability that you get a test
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by trthatcher 13y ago
I don't think it will be a problem to do both. It doesn't take long to learn Julia well enough to write a Julia package that others will use. For me, that was about 3 weeks @ 10-15 hours a week, and I'm no programmer. It&#x27