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2005-12-18 13:53:28     Information Technology Services

http://www.utexas.edu/its/rc/answers/general/gen25.html

General FAQ #25: Handling missing or incomplete data
Question:
I have a database that contains records with incom ...
participants did not complete all of the availab ...
How should I handle this problem?

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2014-02-17 17:32:51     xkcd: Frequency

http://xkcd.com/1331/

Frequency
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2016-03-08 17:22:02     xkcd: Significant

http://xkcd.com/882/

Significant

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2016-01-01 11:46:29    

https://medium.com/...gs-that-aren-t-certain-2fa54aa9340#...

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

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2022-10-20 14:42:43     How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/...hematician-revealed-a-casino-loophole

To study riffle shuffles rigorously, Diaconis used a pow... tool called a Markov chain.

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2017-06-15 21:16:00     When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv.../283865/?...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

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2016-10-17 18:22:16    

https://www.washingtonpost.com/...cautious-than-propublicas/

This past summer, a heated debate broke out about a tool used in courts across the country to help make bail and sentencing decisions. It’s a controversy that touches on some of the big criminal justice questions facing our society. And i...

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2016-10-20 10:41:18     Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/...ig-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, we’ve come... 1954, but i

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