I'm not sure why introductory statistics courses don't begin by addressing foundational issues. Discovered a prospective gem of a stepstone by Jonathan Siegel (rev. 12/26/97), The Shewhart-Deming Critique of Classical Statistics.

Notes: W. Edwards Deming is the same, who traveled to traveled to Japan and revolutionized business practice there ( Read more... )

One of those not-enough-sleep-so-a-soundtrack-runs-through-it,-easily days. The strains are distinctly Beethoven-like: solo bar, followed by orchestra chord changes (repeat pattern four to eight times, rounding out a nice harmonic progression).

Only the background orchestra is clear; it's almost as if I were playing in the orchestra, unable to hear ( Read more... )