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good day, strange day….. When things turned south I moved the ISIS stop up to BE. Shouldn’t have but I did, don’t know yet if that will turn out to be the right thing or not. Did a r… more →
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Measuring Human Rights (9): When "Worse" Doesn't Necessarily Mean "Worse"
Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 days ago: I discussed in this older post some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights viola … more →
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (18): Comparing Apples and Oranges
Filip Spagnoli wrote 3 weeks ago: (source) Throughout this blog-series on abuses and mistakes in statistics, we’ve often seen ho … more →
Quantifying the User Experience
mTp wrote 1 month ago: This article reminds me of similar breakdowns and comparisons used for expert systems in the late 80 … more →
The GM’s Perspective Exclusive - Is Jed Hoyer The Answer In San Diego?
Devon Teeple wrote 1 month ago: The student has surpassed the teacher, so to speak. Thirty-five-year-old Jed Hoyer is to be named th … more →
Measuring Human Rights (8): Measurement of the Fairness of Trials and of Expert Witnesses
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: (source, illustration by the great Paul Blow) An important part of the system of human rights are th … more →
Human Rights Facts (153): Increasing International Development Aid
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: From Nate Silver’s blog, an invaluable resource for statisticians and other people interested … more →
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (11): Polarized Statistics as a Result of Self-Selection
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: shouting match, composite image of works by Michelangelo and Grünewald I’ve stated many times … more →
Measuring Democracy (3): But What Kind of Democracy?
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 4 months ago: (source) Those who want to measure whether countries are democratic or not, or want the measure to w … more →
Implications of Sharpe Ratio
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Soham Das wrote 5 months ago: Keeping in tune with bringing a quantitative ‘edge’ to this blog as well as giving a clo … more →
Measuring Human Rights (3): Measuring Your Impact
Filip Spagnoli wrote 6 months ago: (source, skulls placed in a glass cabinet as a memorial to people killed in the Cambodian killing fi … more →
Measuring Human Rights (1): The Importance and the Limits of the Quantitative Approach to Human Rights
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 6 months ago: (source) Regular readers of this blog know that I’m obsessed with data and quantitative measur … more →
Barclays quants error on leveraged ETFs
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phorgyphynance wrote 6 months ago: In a recent article, Cheng and Madhaven from Barclays Global Investors published a good article on l … more →
Quantitative investing Scam or not?
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vsharma09 wrote 7 months ago: After all the recent credit crisis, most of us must be aware of quant’s or at least quantitative tra … more →
Measuring Human Rights (2): The Quantitative Approach to Human Rights (Article)
Filip Spagnoli wrote 8 months ago: (source) For those interested in statistical methods for monitoring human rights violations, I … more →
Daily Speculations
newtonlinchen wrote 8 months ago: I invite you to read a very interesting discussion on “Curve Fitting” at DailySpeculatio … more →
Quant Talk
newtonlinchen wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I spent a nice time talking to a friend and blog reader. The subject was the same of our r … more →
Disingenuous quant bashing
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phorgyphynance wrote 9 months ago: My last post: Why do scientists go into finance? started out as an introduction to this post, but gr … more →
Why do scientists go into finance?
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phorgyphynance wrote 9 months ago: Why do mathematicians and physicists go into finance? One reason people may sympathize with is mere … more →
These Days
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newtonlinchen wrote 9 months ago: I don’t like carnival. Whoever knows me knows that. So I spent carnival holiday resting, study … more →
