Posted on 19 September 2009 by Stanley
Would you like to conduct a simple statistical experiment?
Grab a list of measurements from a real-life source of data, such as heights of buildings, or lengths of rivers. Now look at just the first digit of each of the measurements and record the frequency of the numbers 1 through to 9. Intuitively, you’d expect that [...]
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Posted on 27 October 2008 by Stanley
I received an email today from the Australian Bureau of Statistics announcing that they have released CDATA Online for the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. If you interrogate Census data as frequently as I do then this is a very welcome announcement. In fact it’s quite a big deal. Users can now [...]
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