whuber

Northeastern US

quantdec.com

Age: 13

Consultant (environmental and spatial stats a specialty), expert witness, and teacher.

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The Sleeping Beauty Paradox

decision-theory paradox asked Oct 25 '12 at 20:10

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What strategies, criteria, or rules to use for selecting coordinate systems?

projection datum coordinate-system asked Oct 20 '10 at 21:09

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21 votes

What raster-based GIS systems really work?

raster map-algebra asked Oct 21 '10 at 20:37

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20 votes

Strategies for solving problems involving searches

graphs-and-networks code-review searching asked Feb 6 at 17:33

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17 votes

How can I get the shutter actuation count for Canon EOS 500D/550D?

metadata canon-550d canon-500d shutter-actuations asked Oct 8 '10 at 17:26

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13 votes

Unbiased estimation of covariance matrix for multiply censored data

correlation estimation censoring variance-covariance unbiased-estimator asked Aug 17 '10 at 13:10

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10 votes

Looking for good introductory treatment of meta-analysis

modeling meta-analysis asked Aug 20 '10 at 18:06

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10 votes

Crime mapping symbology

cartography symbology asked Mar 7 '11 at 19:35

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9 votes

Model for population density estimation

modeling unbiased-estimator spatial asked Nov 11 '10 at 14:38

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Top Answers

Is $R^2$ useful or dangerous?

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Why is the 'straight line' path across continent so curved?

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How to measure the accuracy of latitude and longitude?

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How can this confetti code be improved to include shadows and gravity?

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How much math does a GIS Analyst need to know?

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Do fluorescent lighting and shutter speed create a problem with color cast?

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How would you explain covariance to someone who understands only the mean?

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Essential data checking tests

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Intuitive explanation of unit root

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What skills are required to perform large scale statistical analyses?

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Look and you shall find (a correlation)

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Why do light sources appear as stars sometimes?

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In linear regression, when is it appropriate to use the log of an independent variable instead of the actual values?

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Which pseudo-$R^2$ measure is the one to report for logistic regression (Cox & Snell or Nagelkerke)?

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How to understand degrees of freedom?

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How to find the center of geometry of an object?

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Does Pi contain all possible number combinations?

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Excel as a statistics workbench

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How can a regression be significant yet all predictors be non-significant?

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What is the probability that this person is female?

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One dimensional map of the world?

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Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

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Does it make sense to add a quadratic term but not the linear term to a model?

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What are the 'big problems' in statistics?

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Algorithm for offsetting a latitude/longitude by some amount of meters

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How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica?

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Plotting an Unreasonable Function

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What intuitive explanation is there for the central limit theorem?

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A Probability distribution value exceeding 1 is OK?

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Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA?

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