Statistics

Euclidean Distance Score

October 30th, 2008 by Eric | No Comments

Euclidean Distance Score

I am currently reading Toby Segaran’s book “Programming Collective Intelligence” and one of the first topics it covers is how do you determine of similar two people are.


Presidential Election Poll Stats

September 10th, 2008 by Eric | No Comments

Presidential Election Poll Stats

I am love watching the polls. Here are some of my favorite links.


Benford’s Law

September 4th, 2008 by Eric | No Comments

Benford’s Law

Benford’s Law roughly stats that values of measurements in nature often have a logarithmic distribution.


Forecasting Dates

August 12th, 2007 by Eric | No Comments

Forecasting Dates

So this is a little thing that I have been working on - nothing too interesting but, I like it. Essentially, if you have a dataset with time on the x axis and a projected goal this function will tell you the exact date your data projection will intersect with your goal.