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[Geeky, News, St Andrews, Web, economics, statistics]

What have I been up to recently? Well, a lot of practicals for wildlife population assessment, and an essay for Adv. Bayesian Inference for a start. The former was not very fun but the second was pretty interesting although I’m not sure if I have any writing skills whatsoever (as those who read this blog will be able to confirm.)

On Wednesday it was “Pi Day” (3.14) I was not involved in the silliness of drinking wine in the physics common room before mid-day, my opinion is better summed up with the power of Dinosaur Comics.

In other linkage: MR on fairtrade, Steven Levitt gets annoyed with airlines (Freakonomics blog) and Ben Goldacre get angry about the global warming “documentary” which was on Channel 4 last week.

Finally, lightbluetouchpaper has a good article on how to write an abstract.

I think that’s all for now…

back from the grave assignments

[Geeky, St Andrews, Web, statistics]

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be J.L. Doob’s Measure Theory.

I am different from other books on measure theory in that I accept probability theory as an essential part of measure theory. This means that many examples are taken from probability; that probabilistic concepts such as independence, Markov processes, and conditional expectations are integrated into me rather than being relegated to an appendix; that more attention is paid to the role of algebras than is customary; and that the metric defining the distance between sets as the measure of their symmetric difference is exploited more than is customary.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

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