Tag Archives: covid-19

In this week’s brief we feature a guest blog on Ethical Data Science; our course spotlight is: July 17 – Aug 14: Logistic Regression See you in class! Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Ethical Data Science As data science has evolved into AI, the intimate connection between the scientist and the data isContinue reading “June 16: Statistics in Practice”

In this Brief, we visit the issue of “statistical arbitrage” in financial markets, and spotlight two courses: June 12 – July 10:  Financial Risk Modeling (today) July 10 – Aug 7:  Spatial Statistics for GIS Using R See you in class! P.S.  Our newest course, Analyzing and Modeling Coronavirus Data, also starts June 12 (today)Continue reading “June 12: Statistics in Practice”

Fear of catching Covid-19 dominates the world, so this week we briefly review how humans think about probabilities, in the context of Covid-19.  Prior beliefs figure heavily in probability calculations, so our course spotlight is on:  July 3 – 31:  Introduction to Bayesian Statistics  See you in class!  – Peter Bruce P.S.  Our new course, AnalyzingContinue reading “June 2: Statistics in Practice”

This week we return to Coronavirus data to look at new analyses that use mobile phone data to estimate the effects of social distancing restrictions, a vital question now are we see the world falling into “lockdown recession.”  Speaking of economic matters, our course spotlight is: June 12 – July 10:  Financial Risk Modeling SeeContinue reading “May 26: Statistics in Practice”

This week we take a look at evolutionary algorithms (it was 150 years ago that Charles Darwin first used the term “evolution” in his writings).  Our course spotlight is: July 17 – Aug 14:  Optimization with Linear Programming See you in class! – Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Evolutionary Algorithms In February, IContinue reading “May 19: Statistics in Practice”

In this Brief, we dive into the terms “sensitivity” and “specificity” and their relatives.  In our course spotlight, clinical trials is the topic.  Now there’s a site just for the 800+ clinical trials associated with Covid-19 (treatments and vaccines).  Is it time for you to start learning how clinical trials work?  Check out our course:Continue reading “May 12: Statistics in Practice”

In this week’s Brief, we look deeper into the question of whether Covid-19 is a senior citizen disease.  Our course spotlight is twofold: Start in May or June:  Mastery in Statistical Modeling (3 courses) June 12 to July 10  Analyzing and Modeling Covid-19 Data See you in class! – Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and SeniorContinue reading “May 5: Statistics in Practice”

Models of virus growth are in the news, and this week we take a closer look at the modeling of epidemics, and introduce our newest course: June 12 to July 10  Analyzing and Modeling Covid-19 Data We’ll cover analysis of covid data broadly, and focus on the epidemiological and statistical models used to forecast theContinue reading “Apr 28: Statistics in Practice”

In this week’s Brief, we explore what data on the flu can tell us about Covid-19 counter-measures.  Our course spotlight is July 31 – Sept 25:  Biostatistics See you in class! – Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Social Distancing and the Flu The popular models for forecasting the spread of Covid-19 have parametersContinue reading “Apr 14: Statistics in Practice”