Timeline for Stuff you should have learned in school but didn't pay attention to at the time
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| Sep 25, 2012 at 11:17 | history | edited | cregox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2011 at 6:02 | comment | added | chrisaycock | @CMR Mostly for reading publications, or submitting research for their own publications. | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 17:03 | comment | added | CMR | @chrisaycock, very interested to know how physicians use stats. Do you mean they use some sort of probabilistic expert-systems for diagnosing the sickness and prescribing drugs? | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 15:12 | comment | added | George | 47.2% of stats are made up. 60.3% of all people know that. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 22:12 | comment | added | user1249 | You probably all should have... | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 17:44 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Mar 2, 2011 at 16:58 | comment | added | Matthew Read | 60% of the time, it works every time. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 16:38 | comment | added | Zachary K | I think there is a 70+/- 2 % chance that I should have taken stats. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 15:46 | comment | added | wkl | @davka - I work in a data driven company and good statistical analysis would be helpful for developers to be able to present their findings on 'why code x is better than code y', or 'yes, I can prove that if you allow me to invest 2 weeks to improve this thing, statistical analysis shows it will speed up by x%'. Knowing how to apply statistical techniques to design your experiments is really the goal here. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 15:44 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | @davka: It comes up more often in testing, especially performance testing. Also in data analysis, which I have a lot of these days. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 15:40 | comment | added | davka | where in your work as a programmer you feel that not knowing statistics enough is an impediment?? This is a very surprising answer for me. Unless you are in a very specific field... | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 15:17 | comment | added | chrisaycock | My brother and I both told our mother last year that we wish we had studied more stats. I'm a quant and he's a physician. Oh, and my mother is a stat teacher... | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 14:46 | comment | added | guiman | Totally agree with @frustratedwithformsdesigner , statistics and Logic are two things i really should have paid more attention | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 14:37 | comment | added | btilly | That was going to be my answer! elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing shows one of the ways in which statistics has proven useful for me. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 14:31 | history | answered | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 2.5 |