Gaussian copula

Courtesy Marginal Revolution, a piece on Wired.com about the Gaussian copula. . ... not all calamities are individual, and tranching stil...

triangulation

IT took issue with what she saw as the false innocence of Alain de Botton's new book on work; ADB took issue with IT's irresponsible...

Toto, I don't think we're in New York

In Berlin, a tip is not calculated on a percentage of the total. On the one hand, one German teacher told me he would leave a tip of 1 euro...

Lectrix

Came across a resource offered by CUP, Lectrix: Four Greek and four Latin texts are on offer. The main focus of the interface is on the text...

(looking for upmarket rephrase of "wow" but fast and frugal heuristics wins the day)

From Marginal Revolution , news of this paper by Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West: In 7 different studies, the authors observed that ...

under the net

2008 was supposed to be the year I stopped smoking, stopped drinking, went to the gym every day and finished five books. It didn't work...

Dark Night of the Soul

Ana Maria Pacheco has a show in Miami that ends Feb 14. Not sure the blog has any readers in Miami, but if you're there you shouldn...

the visa solution

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution on Friedman in the NYT: Add Thomas Friedman to Tyler, myself, Lee Ohanian and others suggesting immi...

spring is just around the corner

.. and we know what that means: Continuing Education courses through ASA! Make your plans now to attend "Fundamental Statistics Concept...

hm

was about to write a new post, checked into the blog, discovered that on the laptop du jour the last post looked like this: it's a book ...

does what it says on the tin

The Poem Itself; 45 Modern Poets in a New Presentation, the French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian Poems, Each Rendered Literally in a...

ultimi Australi

• My writing life has been made possible by the Australian publishers who accepted my work when it was rejected in London and New York, who ...

our lips are sealed

Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret b...