Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’m kicking off the fourth year of this blog with a new video by the troupe Dancing Statistics which explains the concept of correlation very creatively. At the top of this blog I’m also announcing this blog will also be listed on the blog referral site Bloglovin. I encourage youContinue reading “A Video By Dancing Statistics and an Announcement on Bloglovin”
Tag Archives: Correlational Studies
Does the Preseason Matter for the Regular Season?
Last night I watched the Steelers finish the 2013 preseason 0-4. The commentators were saying that it’s probably won’t be a playoff season for them. I thought why not take a look at the numbers to see if there is a pattern. Last year the Steelers were 3-1 in preseason but finished 8-8 in theContinue reading “Does the Preseason Matter for the Regular Season?”
Home Runs, Foxes, and Hedgehogs
Since 1985 one of the most fun events surrounding the major league all star game is the Home Run Derby. Last season it was won by Prince Fielder of the Detroit Tigers and this year by Yoenis Cespedes. Each contestant is pitched to by someone from his own team to make it easier to hitContinue reading “Home Runs, Foxes, and Hedgehogs”
An In Depth Look at a Mindfulness and Stress Study
My former classmate at the University of Hartford, Tonya Jacobs, had an article described in the Huffington Post titled Mindfulness Meditation Could Lower Levels Of Cortisol, The Stress Hormone. It described her study which originally appeared in the Journal of Health Psychology. It talks about how a study was conducted of those who participated in aContinue reading “An In Depth Look at a Mindfulness and Stress Study”
Conspiracies?
It’s so tempting to jump to conclusions when two events are closely related by time, distance, some other numerical measure, or all three. Take for example the Penn State scandal. After the alleged incidents were first reported to authorities and Joe Paterno by Mike McQueary in 2002 the district attorney for Centre County at theContinue reading “Conspiracies?”
A Statistical Profile of the Uninsured in Washington, DC, New Mexico, and Texas
In my most read post on income and life expectancy, I used this graph to show the relationship between income and life expectancy for the 50 states. The District of Columbia, while not technically a state, was an outlier with the highest income but the lowest life expectancy making the relationship borderline significant. I reanalyzedContinue reading “A Statistical Profile of the Uninsured in Washington, DC, New Mexico, and Texas”
The Audacious Epigone
This is not the only site that looks at data and tries to draw conclusions. Other ones which I discussed were FracTracker on Marcellus Shale fracking and the Incidental Economist which are included on the list of relevant blogs on the right. Another which I haven’t discussed yet but did include on the blog listContinue reading “The Audacious Epigone”
Correlating the Percent of Uninsured with County Level Lifestyle Measures and Rural Populations | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
My new guest post for Healthcare 4 All PA is UP. % of Rural population is a variable that needs to be adjusted for. The plot above shows how the % of diabetics in each county is correlated with the % uninsured after adjusting for the % rural population. Correlating the Percent of Uninsured withContinue reading “Correlating the Percent of Uninsured with County Level Lifestyle Measures and Rural Populations | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund”