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Planer. Min plan var, at mit forrige indlæg med observationer direkte eller indirekte relateret til COVID-19 skulle blive mit sidste indlæg i rækken. Der er dog nok en selvstændig pointe i, at hvis COVID-19 har lært os én ting, så er det, at ideen om at lave planer i en pandemi giver meget lidt mening. […]

Her den anden dag fik jeg læst Jytte vender tilbage. Bogen er skrevet af Morten Münster og er en opfølger til bogen Jytte fra Marketing er desværre gået for i dag (som jeg anmeldte for Kommunikationsforum). Hvis du allerede er bekendt med grundlæggende begreber inden for statistik (eksempelvis fødselsdagsparadokset), adfærdsøkonomi (eksempelvis tabsaversion), og økonomi mere […]

Statistics is about learning from data in the context of uncertainty. Often we communicate uncertainty in the form of probabilities. How should we best communicate such probabilities in our figures? The key point in this post is that we should not only present probabilities in the form of probabilities and the like. Instead, we need […]

There are two very different quotes. The first is “the plural of anecdote is not data”. The second is “the plural of anecdote is data”. They are pretty much opposites. You can find more information on the two quotes here. I often see the former quote being used to dismiss anecdotal evidence and ask for […]

I have been reading a few papers on how to structure data and code. In the post, I provide a list of the papers I have found together with the main advice/rules offered in the respective papers (do consult the individual papers for examples and explanations). Noteworthy, there is an overlap in the advice the […]