simulation – The Eighteenth Elephant

August 2, 2022August 9, 2022

Three views of a statistics puzzle

On his blog today, Andrew Gelman posted a simple to state, clearly realistic, and surprisingly deep statistics puzzle sent to him by Ariel Rubinstein and Michele Piccione, from their paper, “Real People Aggregating Signals: An Experiment and a Short Story” Article Link: A very small proportion of the newborns in a certain country have a … Continue reading Three views of a statistics puzzle

June 20, 2015June 21, 2015

Bacteria and Boltzmann

(A more technical post than most, in which we look at bacterial population densities, and watch a movie.) This term I taught a graduate biophysics course, about which I’ll write a recap later. Bacteria came up a lot in the course, both because they’re important but also because they offer many nice illustrations of how … Continue reading Bacteria and Boltzmann

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