"On the average, they're a mean bunch!"
"They can appreciate a nice posterior and GAMs"
exciting pickup line: "Wana come to my place and see my bootstrap collection?"
"At parties, they can recite the highlights of the last census"
Saturday, January 14, 2006
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Not only do statisticians publish in the PNAS (say that slow), shrinkage has been proven to be a good thing, AND have become a common practice.
Statistics, what a hazardous place for men...
Of course, regularization is also a common practice. this IS a good thing for anybody.
Obligatory mention of the existence of distributions in the community with low variance and pdf that is even and bimodal.
On second thoguht... a u-shaped distrubtion can do that.... Probably need to extend distribution ot to infinity, and the best looking ones are locally symmetric...
Maybe I will go study a bit more before making jokes again :(
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