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A Brief Discourse on the Jackknife Method
I often use bootstrapping when I need to get an estimate of some parameter, but that is because I have access to sufficient computational resources to to just do run my analysis as much as I want. But that has not always been the case and the usual method before
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Confucianism in the Time of Coronavirus
One of the most well-known aspects of Confucian thought is the importance of the social order. Confucius thought it was important that everyone know their place in society. This idea is summarized by Confucius: Let a prince be a prince, and ministers be ministers; let fathers be fathers, and sons
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China and Founding Myth
The founding myth of China revolves around the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Unlike later formal dynasties, even if prehistoric like the Xia Dynasty or Shang Dynasty. This period, before the Xia Dynasty, came in the late Neolithic period and probably ended between 2100 and 2050 BCE. While prehistoric, we
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Why Social Distancing Works
Everyone is talking about social distancing, but nobody seems to understand why it works. This is what I wrote for someone on Facebook. So with any disease, there’s a bunch of metrics associated with how fast and far a disease will spread. Kind of the freshman epidemiology one is called
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Proposed Charter Review Recommendations
Below is the synopsis of the proposed recommendations from the Charter Review Commission. Please come by our hearing tomorrow night to discuss these with us.
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The Handbook for Military and Defense Operations Research has been published
I am very happy to announce that the Handbook for Military and Defense Operations Research, coedited with Natalie Scala, has been published by CRC Press. The electronic copy is available now and the print copy will be on Amazon on March 2! It was a lot of fun to work
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Shotgun Pi
Monte Carlo is a beautiful process that can be used to address many, many problems. One of my favorites is that it can be used to estimate the value of . First of all, we know that is the ratio between the radius of a circle, squared, and its area.
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