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[Nov. 24th, 2008|05:28 am] |
I am so very glad that self promotion by gratuitously friending people hasn't taken over here like it has on twitter.
Christine spent a good bit of the morning snuggling with her sister's aged cat. We have bonded with Toons over the years, and i suspect Christine will grieve over his death.
The picture window is filled with cardinals fluttering in the leafless copse. I was startled to see white flakes drifting across the scene. Not snow -- though last week had a number of flurries, we hear. "Tree dander," my sister jokes. Makes me think of cottonwoods, but i don't recall cottonwoods until i spent summers in Santa Fe. Seems an odd time of year.
This Canadian (conservative?) view of Bush's legacy is thought provoking: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=982040 It doesn't mention how Laura Bush appears to have done a great deal to encourage GW to expand marine conservation efforts. Personally, i'm torn over the run up the courts that ended recently with the Supreme Court figuring that the death of some marine mammals was a minor cost compared to submarine training in the San Diego vicinity. Does expanding the Monterey and Hawaiian Marine sanctuaries offset that?
After answering a number of questions from Christine, may i say DO NOT READ _Super Review of Statistics_ from the Research and Education Association, Inc.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good intro book to basic statistics? (The stats book i had was not general, i think, but targeted towards physics data analysis. I don't know how narrow a view to the field it was.)
The "Sibling Summit" basically went well. I think my SIL has a great deal of frustrated feelings around her dynamics with her older siblings. Christine, as the far youngest and the dramatically geographically removed sibling, had a slightly different experience, i think. All in all though, a good productive evening, bonding even. |
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I have favourite stats texts, but they're pretty old! However: at a low level, I like Paul Hoel's Elementary Statistics, and with a start from more mathematical sophistication, Morris DeGroot's Probability and Statistics. | |
