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This article was published in many publications / newspapers over the last few days, see e.g. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/06/many-earths-out-there-nearly-all-kepler-planets-may-be-real-deal/.

What's very interesting is that planet detection is based entirely on statistical technology: the planets can't be seen no matter how powerful your…

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PLEASANTON, Calif.- February 25th, 2011 - The largest benchmark research ever done on business analytics establishes for the first time that analytics has become the new engine for business competitiveness and profitability. This landmark research from Ventana Research, which involved input from more than 2,850 organizations, makes clear for the first time the little-understood role of business analytics in the success and failure of businesses.



The research found that more than…

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How was this statistic computed? Is it based on the formula

Q = 1 - (1 - x/y)^26 = 1/3200,

where

• If we pack all 6 billion human beings into a very compact square area, that area will cover x square miles.
• The total area of the earth is y square miles,
• Q is the chance that at least one out of 26 pieces (expected to fall on earth) hits the square area in question

If this is the case, then the human beings occupy a proportion R = 1 - {1…

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Excellent resources compiled by Will Yancey, PhD, CPA.

Will Yancey, PhD, CPA 

Email: [email protected] 

Office phone 734.744.4400 Dr. Yancey consults on audit sampling and litigation support.

 

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"Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming.

The study, which appeared in 2008 in the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, was headed by statistician Edward Wegman of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Its analysis was an outgrowth of a controversial congressional report that Wegman headed in 2006. The 'Wegman Report'…

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I was reading the 2004 edition of "Computer Science Handbook", published by Chapman & All/CRC, in collaboration with the ACM association. It has 2,752 pages, weights 5.8 pounds according to Amazon.com, and has a 56-page index with about 6,000 keywords. Yet naive Bayes and logistic regression are not listed, just to mention 2 popular data mining keywords.

It is incredibly surprising, in the 21-st century, to see that disciplines such as data mining, computer sciences, and…

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Search queries:

• boeing+data+mining
• ibm+data+mining
• google+data+mining
• microsoft+data+mining…

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I did a search for 'data mining' on Bing, and was surprised to see the search results. I cut and pasted these search results at the bottom of my message.

To summarize:

• If you are logged in on Facebook, Microsoft will access your Facebook cookie, and retrieve and display customized search results about what your Facebook friends like (see below), blended with traditional generic search results.
• So Microsoft is not trying to compete with Google by improving search…

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.…

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•1. Predictive Analytics Applied to the Hospital Billing Process http://bit.ly/gpX9ak  …

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By Pablo Triana -- Published: November 29 2010 00:00 | Last updated: November 29 2010 00:00



Imagine a car school that specialised in teaching how to build Toyotas. Following the manufacturer’s recall of thousands of malfunctioning vehicles, should the school rethink its curriculum or should it trot along unperturbed, delivering the same lectures as before, as if nothing had happened?



A similar conundrum is faced today by those universities that offer graduate programmes in… Continue

Dr. Rado Kotorov is chief innovation officer at Information Builders, and is responsible for emerging reporting, analytic and visualization technologies. He has developed analytic… Continue

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Salary budgets for 2011 are projected to continue rising after hitting historic lows in 2009, according to results from the 2010-2011 Culpepper Salary Budget & Planning Survey.…

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Heritage Provider Network (HPN), an award-winning managed care organization with a focus on the physician-patient relationship, today announced a $3 million competition designed to develop a more accurate way to predict the likelihood of an individual’s future hospitalization, thus allowing physicians to target care and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations.



The Health Prize is part of HPN’s ongoing efforts to spur innovations that improve quality and reduce inefficiencies in health… Continue

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT consulting firm Accenture is to create 100 new jobs over the next four years at a new centre in Ireland dedicated to predictive analytics – or the use of statistics to help businesses forecast future revenues. The new jobs will take Accenture’s workforce in Ireland to 1,400.



Brian McCarthy, executive director of Accenture Analytics, said the company had begun the recruitment process for the high-level research jobs, which will be filled by graduate to PhD-level… Continue