If there’s one thing I’ve learned this week, it’s never leave home without your favorite stats book when you’re in the middle of data analysis. I can’t tell you how many times I have wished I’d brought along that crazy expensive but amazingly helpful book — you’ve probably heard me mention it before: Reading, Statistics, [...]
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statistics info
With all of this event log data from CT and data downloaded from del.icio.us to play with, I’ve been looking into learning more about statistics lately. I took a couple of summer courses (regression I and II) from ICPSR at UM, which served mostly as review and a bit of a crash course in linear [...]
writing a proposal
I’ve examined several dissertation proposals by students in our school to get a better idea of what a proposal looks like here. After this exercise, the answer to my question about what a proposal should look like ended up being “it depends!” I put together a list of sections I hope to include in my [...]
ideas from other people
I’ve been reading a lot of papers lately about common ground, conversation, and conventions. I was hoping to find a stream of research all about feedback in conversation that allows people to figure out what their conversation partners know (one way of conceptualizing ‘common ground’). I don’t think I have found it yet. It seems [...]
