Terence’s Stuff: My 15 Minutes of Fame
Terry Speed has had a brush with fame. Winning the Australian Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, he may have helped to raise the profile of statistics
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Travel
If travel broadens the mind, Terry Speed must be one of the most broad-minded people you’ll meet, quite possibly at the next conference you go to.
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Statistics and The War
Terry Speed reflects on the significant advances made in statistics during, and because of, the Second World War.
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Meeting the Public
Giving public lectures is a part of the job for senior academics. Terry Speed reflects on his recent experience of addressing a more general audience.
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: A Rant
Terry Speed is mad as hell that we are still struggling for gender equity after all these years. Are you doing something about it?
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Least-but-not-last Squares
In this issue, Terry Speed surveys the history of least squares, which has applications to life, the universe and everything…
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: 0.886 And All That
In the last issue, Terry Speed wrote about n vs n−1. So what links that topic to Walter Shewhart and control charts? 0.886!
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: n vs n-1
“Why is the denominator in the sample mean n, but the denominator for the sample variance is n−1?” a reader asked me. My answer needs to be comprehensible to his [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Does it work in practice?
For many statisticians, working in theory is the same as working in practice. Terry Speed begs to disagree.
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Quitting
This “Piled Higher and Deeper” comic strip by Jorge Cham seems apposite: “Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham: www.phdcomics.com No-one wants to be seen as a quitter. And none [ More.. ]
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