Forum: Random Chat

I've been lurking around since the very beginning and it's great to see the forum getting so active. I sometimes wonder why people come here and...

Dear all, I wonder if it is reasonable to publish in these „new“ open-access journals like http://www.frontiersin.org/ For me it sounds like:...

We felt it was best to move this chat to a thread to make the discussion permanently searchable :) Question: What are your top 5 video games as a...

He Guys & girls, Got a new laptop, Lenovo E530 (chose it for the battery life) as this will be the machine I work on when I travel. I was...

25 October 2011 "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything" - Ronald Coase

So my CS class on discrete math, of which the teacher is far from expert, had a problem today the teacher basically had to blow off because it was a...

I can't read or participate in the chat on the main page anymore. Has the rules (e.g requires members to have 200+ posts) for participating in the...

As I'm getting better at various open source or free stuff I am finding that it's been helpful to talk to people here about various open source...

Love the Motherland, Love Statistics In Life Some mock me for doing statistics Some loathe me and statistics Some don’t understand what...

A while ago I proposed to a few people the idea of creating a "Forum Member Interview" type thread. Well there would probably be multiple threads...

There's is an extremely important question that urgently demands the immediate attention of someone with the skills to solve the consequential...

Anyone else see this? I thought I'd share since I found it pretty interesting... ...

Any predictions for Season 7's finale?

Hey everyone, What is everyone's calculator of choice? I exclusively use HP calculators, but realized yesterday I am the only one in my class...

Jake has kindly offered to be interviewed for the greater good. Jake has been around for over a year now, he is a PhD candidate in social...

good evening I'd like to share this simple game :) for example: I'll post " coffee OR iced tea ? then the following member choose one choice...

Hi All, I am wondering what happended to StatisticPedia, and to that very interesting Terzi's primer on PCA? it is dead, or it is me that do not...

Could you please help me with this? http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MA121-1.3.4-hw.pdf

Doing his thing ;) C4cS-eEhuVM

I believe when I initially proposed the idea for a Random Chat forum one of the reasons had something to do with "cookie recipes". Well I finally...

Hey folks One thing that seems to be a re-occurring theme in the interview threads is peoples (and raptors) curiosity about favorate foods. Does...

We have the privilege of interviewing Lazar, a talkstats contributor and member since February 2010. Lazar is a PhD, residing in Australia, and has...

May I know who is an expert here in ANCOVA and MANCOVA and the related post hoc analysis?

If you haven't taken adequate measures to protect yourself from a raptor attack then I highly suggest you read up on some protective measures you can...

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Hi. What's the hot potato for researches now?

I was just wondering if you were hypothetically looking for a distraction to keep you from writing a paper... what kind of topics would you want...

Where is the time the time sic!] that can be seen in the forum? The time is currently 23:23 here i Sweden :)

This is a spin-off from this thread that is really getting offtopic, so I will reply here. Nonsense, the success of R and linux comes from far...

what would unambiguously increase the value of the test statistic? is it an increase in the sample variance for one treatment groups whose variances...

Here is your free beer: http://www.talkstats.com/showthread.php/22925-Beer Seriously though - next round is on you for falling for that. ...

Dason, that dog looks really cool and was wondering if it's actually your dog.

Greetings -I tried to make things easy and wound up complicating it instead. I took a long number and put it in a csv file from sas to make it a txt...

I go to a couple of marine ecology conferences each year, so I know what to expect from those but this is a mesh of statistics and programing... so I...

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, is on December 31. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening...

When I write emails to R help list they always wind up messed up and make me look dumb. I've tried using plain text format and rich text in hotmail...

So today, about every other page on TalkStats is displaying an ad for singlesnet.com, with a picture of an improbably busty blonde and the tag line...

I have a player radomization table problem. Example: 30 players total. 2 courts. 2 sides to a court. 2 team on a court. (1 team on each side) 5...

The other night my wife and kids and I pulled out parchessi. at one point, bewteen my daughter, my son and I, we rolled 7 doubles straight. If I...

With Christmas coming up (or Newton-mass; see final date). I though I might post a thread to remind you of some important dates, on which you will be...

The words basic, simple, and please. Since they show up so often in request and commonly if they say their basic or simple....they are not.

It took a long time, but I finally found the location Thomas Bayes first came up with his celebrated theory.

TE No fancy banners, I just wanted to offer a big thank you and congratulations on your 1,000th post. I have learned a great deal off you over...

A very big congradulations to our most honored member trinker for reaching that milestone statistic ... 1000 posts!! Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah! ...