November 03, 2015

Kriging in Perspective (Teaching outtakes)

Attention conservation notice: 11 pages of textbook out-take on statistical methods, either painfully obvious or completely unintelligible.

I wrote up some notes on kriging for use in the regression class, but eventually decided teaching that and covariance estimation would be too much. Eventually I'll figure out how to incorporate it into the book, but in the meanwhile I offer it for the edification of the Internet.

Enigmas of Chance; Corrupting the Young

Posted at November 03, 2015 19:00 | permanent link

Housekeeping Notes

Blogging will remain sparse while I teach, finish the book, write grant proposals, try not to screw up being involved in a faculty search, do all the REDACTED BECAUSE PRIVATE things, and dream about research. In the meanwhile:

A Twitter account, opened at Tim Danford's instigation. This is a semi-automated new account which is just for announcing new posts here; it (and I use the pronoun deliberately) follows no one, I read nothing, and messages or attempts to engage might as well be piped to /dev/null.

My online notebooks are in the same process of incremental update they've been for the last 21 years.

My on-going bookmarking, with short commentary. (Pinboard doesn't need my unsolicited endorsement, but has it.)

Tumblr, for pictures.

Self-centered

Posted at November 03, 2015 17:00 | permanent link

Three-Toed Sloth