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Fight the criminals as a Forensics Scientist
During November and December, you're invited to attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. Each event features a series of short demos presented by members of the community and there are many great opportunities for networking. You don't need to be a software developer to attend! There are currently 30 DemoCamps scheduled in 15 countries from November 1 - December 12, 2009. Check out the wiki page at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2009 for a location near you. Add your name if you'd like to give a demo or attend an event. Space may be limited at some locations. Cheers, Lynn Gayowski Marketing Events Manager Eclipse Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ eclipse-announce-europe mailing list ecli ... @eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-announce-europe I'm in no way affiliated with the author, but this blog post struck me as interesting and accessible: http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2010/06/linear-modeling-in-r-and- hubble-bubble.html On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Joris Meys wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geoffrey Smith < gp ... @asu.edu > wrote: You might think about looking at stock returns and asking questions about the probability of doubling your money or of getting a rate of return that exceeds the historical mean. Geoff Doesn't always work though. Bio-engineers for example are typically less interested in gambling on the stockmarket... ;-) Now serious, one of the finest examples I met is the example about the death penalty in Florida, to be found in Agresti's book "Categorical Data Analysis" on page 48 and further. It gives a very nice illustration of Simpson's paradox, applied to real data about a topic that leaves few untouched. Basically Agresti shows there how one came to the conclusion that whites got more often the death penalty than blacks in Florida. If one didn't take the victim into account, that is. When looking at the victims, it was clear that the death penalty was more often declared when the victim was white. It turned out that blacks mostly kill blacks, and whites mostly killed whites. Conditional on the victim, the story turned around and blacks clearly got the death penalty more often. The data goes from 1971 to 1987, so is fairly safe to use for educational purposes Cheers Joris On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Christophe Genolini
