This may not work in undergraduate courses, but I solved this problem in a statistics course for life-science graduate students by creating separate exams for everyone, and allowing unlimited collaboration. I wrote a program to vary the problems and the data simultaneously and gave each student an individual exam, telling them that they had to solve their own research problem but could collaborate with anyone they wanted to. My logic was that in the real world statistics was collaborative and there was little gain in memorizing formulae. A few dumb bunnies didn't get it the first time and literally copied other students solutions, but giving out F's for the test fixed that real quick.
Some old people are scared of change. My father is 87 and just switched to an iMac.
I think the fact that I switched had something to do with it, and I'm way over 50.
If you RTFA, the examples appear to be cases of traveling while being Muslim, Middle Eastern or Asian. Any examples of Nordic blondes or Irish Redheads getting the same treatment?
Well, I'm 58 and my son (18) has threatened a facial tattoo if I do join . And my Dad (88) is happy with his new iMac and is setting up iChat so he can do video chat with his buddies. I'm thinking of telling him about Facebook and watching my son go crazy....
The only place I see mention of multiple PhD holders is in American fiction such as television and Hollywood movies.
I take it you don't do much clinical medical research? The M.D./Ph.D. combo is not uncommon there. The M.D.'s usually have done a residency/passed the specialist boards, too.
Let's agree to disagree on the chartjunk. The Gapminder figures have a great wow factor, but I find their plots to be rather noisy when trying to understand the data.
I prefer tools like Ggobi http://www.ggobi.org/, its predecessor XGobi http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/ or commercial products like SAS' insight or jmp. I'm sure there are others. They allow you to tour and manipulate the data through linked plots and displays and selectively turn on and off elements.
Nice pictures. Lets me look at data they have cooked. Lots of nifty chartjunk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk. I seem to have missed the link that lets me enter my own data. Does anybody have a pointer to that?
For those type of agreements, all the partners are alive and enter into it willing. Each knows that they will be the benificiary of the others death. When my brother died of cancer, the remaining principals of the firm paid out the death benefits, as was previously agreed, and the firm moved on. Assets which weren't covered by the partnership were split up and ownership passed on to his heirs.
That is not an unusual agreement among principals.
"The Corporations" - not true. The corporations pay through the nose to get access to stuff that is cheap or free to academics. You have heard of JSTOR snf other sites like that haven't you? You may be thinking of the publishers, whose business model depends on willingness to pay for information.
"The Corporations" do pay for reseach that meets their needs, and allow the researchers to publish redacted versions of it.
No, in my experience, its usually an engineer, manager, or marketing person who wants to pretend that they are statisticians and the basis of the one (or two (whoo-whoo)) courses they have had in statistics and research methods.
The orignial "doctors" were teachers (that's what the latin word means) when medicine was either a barber/surgeon or herbs from your local herbalist. The M.D. was developed much later and is essentially an undergraduate degree, which doesn't require any research or teaching (although it pays really well!).
See wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy) for more info.
If they require windows, simply take away their admin privileges. If they are techie enough to defeat that, then put them on their own machine or install linux.
I find X1, the underlying search engine very useful. Its Outlook search is much faster than the native one.
If you have a large collection of PDF files (e.g. technical references) its very simple to find all papers that refer to a particular paper, or that use a phrase, etc. Basically its as fast as I can type.
Similarly for searching code files (you can add file types and search just those.) Great for finding that (commented) code fragment that you wrote last year!
Please watch the stereotypes. I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics. I don't hunt, although I do ski and scuba dive. I also employ programmers for things I design.
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This may not work in undergraduate courses, but I solved this problem in a statistics course for life-science graduate students by creating separate exams for everyone, and allowing unlimited collaboration. I wrote a program to vary the problems and the data simultaneously and gave each student an individual exam, telling them that they had to solve their own research problem but could collaborate with anyone they wanted to. My logic was that in the real world statistics was collaborative and there was little gain in memorizing formulae. A few dumb bunnies didn't get it the first time and literally copied other students solutions, but giving out F's for the test fixed that real quick.
It was a gift. She says i can look at it tomorrow, maybe...
Loved those two games: Crusader, No Remorse and Crusader No Regret.
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Perhaps you mean this
Well, you might want to look up Bioequivalence for methods to prove negatives. statistics at your service.
Some old people are scared of change. My father is 87 and just switched to an iMac. I think the fact that I switched had something to do with it, and I'm way over 50.
If you RTFA, the examples appear to be cases of traveling while being Muslim, Middle Eastern or Asian. Any examples of Nordic blondes or Irish Redheads getting the same treatment?
Come to Wisconsin or Minnesota
Well, I'm 58 and my son (18) has threatened a facial tattoo if I do join . And my Dad (88) is happy with his new iMac and is setting up iChat so he can do video chat with his buddies. I'm thinking of telling him about Facebook and watching my son go crazy....
I take it you don't do much clinical medical research? The M.D./Ph.D. combo is not uncommon there. The M.D.'s usually have done a residency/passed the specialist boards, too.
Actually the odds of dying once are infinite. Odds= Probability/(1-Probability)
I prefer tools like Ggobi http://www.ggobi.org/, its predecessor XGobi http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/ or commercial products like SAS' insight or jmp. I'm sure there are others. They allow you to tour and manipulate the data through linked plots and displays and selectively turn on and off elements.
Nice pictures. Lets me look at data they have cooked. Lots of nifty chartjunk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk. I seem to have missed the link that lets me enter my own data. Does anybody have a pointer to that?
Publishing my data is too bothersome.
Any questions?
That is not an unusual agreement among principals.
It's not just that their idea doesn't answer any questions. No questions would even get asked , if these people ran the world, or your school system.
Don't forget religious wars. they are so much more fun. No resolution till one side is gone...
"The Corporations" - not true. The corporations pay through the nose to get access to stuff that is cheap or free to academics. You have heard of JSTOR snf other sites like that haven't you? You may be thinking of the publishers, whose business model depends on willingness to pay for information. "The Corporations" do pay for reseach that meets their needs, and allow the researchers to publish redacted versions of it.
No, in my experience, its usually an engineer, manager, or marketing person who wants to pretend that they are statisticians and the basis of the one (or two (whoo-whoo)) courses they have had in statistics and research methods.
what fun. Add voice recognition and eliza and stir...
The orignial "doctors" were teachers (that's what the latin word means) when medicine was either a barber/surgeon or herbs from your local herbalist. The M.D. was developed much later and is essentially an undergraduate degree, which doesn't require any research or teaching (although it pays really well!).y ) for more info.
See wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosoph
If they require windows, simply take away their admin privileges. If they are techie enough to defeat that, then put them on their own machine or install linux.
I find X1, the underlying search engine very useful. Its Outlook search is much faster than the native one. If you have a large collection of PDF files (e.g. technical references) its very simple to find all papers that refer to a particular paper, or that use a phrase, etc. Basically its as fast as I can type. Similarly for searching code files (you can add file types and search just those.) Great for finding that (commented) code fragment that you wrote last year!
No, but I do have one that says "I'm too sexy for my hair, which is why it isn't there"
Please watch the stereotypes. I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics. I don't hunt, although I do ski and scuba dive. I also employ programmers for things I design.