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Outlier?
http://commentsfromleftfield.com/ 2008/ 09/ outlierNot content to limit their war to just the media, the McCain campaign has now taken to pushing back against polls as well. In their refutation of the just released WaPo poll that put Obama up by nine points, Team McCain’s leading pollster dismissed the data point as merely an outlier.
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Outlier Tailored Performance Pants
http://fashionratty.com/ article/ 7f53ab69a4dc720f55a33f497166fcf3See cached article | See other articles from this feed | Abuse Report The answer to every cycle commuters worries has arrived. Outlier pants are built out of Schoeller 3xDry and Nanosphere fabrics. They are classically tailored. You are dry. You look good.
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upcoming from Malcolm Gladwell - ‘Outliers’ - excerpt available
http://mymindonbooks.com/ ?p=718Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is scheduled for a Nov 18 release, but available for pre-order and the publisher Hachette Book Group has an excerpt available here, which appears to be the whole prologue.
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Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to detect outliers in datasets?
http://softwareblogs.intel.com/ 2008/ 08/ 29/ intel-summary-statistics-library-h…Earlier I computed various statistical estimates like mean or variance-covariance matrix using Intel® Summary Statistics Library. In those cases I knew for sure that my datasets did not contain “bad” observations (points which do not belong to the distribution which I observed) or outliers.
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Malcolm Gladwell Tells Hiring Stories from the Near Future
http://astoriedcareer.com/ 2008/ 08/ malcolm-gladwell-tells-hiring.htmlMalcolm Gladwell’s next book apparently will be about the challenge of hiring in the modern world. Amazon lists his next book as Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t, which doesn’t sound exactly like the topic he talked about at the recent New Yorker Stories from the Near Future Conference.
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Intel® Summary Statistics Library: How to Manage With Oceans of Information?
http://softwareblogs.intel.com/ 2008/ 08/ 08/ intel-summary-statistics-library-h…Welcome to Intel® Summary Statistics Library, solution for parallel statistical processing of multi-dimensional datasets. It contains functions for initial statistical analysis of raw data which allow investigating structure of datasets and get their basic characteristics, estimates, and internal dependencies.
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Safer Sex Found in High Schoolers but Progress Is Mixed
http://health-fitness.marc8.com/ safer-sex-found-high-schoolers-progress-mixedSafer Sex Found in High Schoolers but Progress Is Mixed MedPage Today Infectious Disease Fri, 08/01/2008 - 11:48 ATLANTA -- The safe-sex message is getting through to high schoolers as a whole, but blacks and Hispanics stand out as notable outliers, according to the CDC.
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About that Poll…
http://www.teambio.org/ 2008/ 07/ 24/ about-that-poll/We have two new Senate polls, both surprising. In Minnesota, Al Franken seems to have caught up with Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), in contrast to many earlier polls showing Coleman safely ahead. Similar, in New Hampshire, Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) appears to have caught up to former governor Jeanne Shaheen (D), when polls for months show her with double-digit leads.
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Faithful Fringe
http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 07/ faithful-fringe.htmlI've posted on the subject of the "faithful fringe" over at the new blog The Crowded Handbasket where I was invited to participate. Do take a look!
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Pre-order Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers
http://www.idealog.us/ 2008/ 06/ pre-order-malco.htmlPre-order Malcolm Gladwell's upcoming book, Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't. It was noted in today's New York Times. Gladwell is the author of bestseller The Tipping Point.
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