an the reason why I picked up my iPhone 45 minutes ago 🙄… I wanted to recommend “Applied Optimal Estimation” by the technical staff at The Analytic Sciences Corporation (pictured).

I read through the first two chapters today, which swiftly review #LinearAlgebra and #ProbabilityTheory , then #LinearDynamicSystems , building steadily towards #autocorrelation and #autoregression , finally topping off with two paragraphs of the fast Fourier transform #FFT

If that sounds like it’s a lot for 90 pages— it is! I really enjoy how concise and lucid the writing is. It’s a technical manual for applied scientists in the mid 1970s. It’s meant to be useful, understandable, and point to further studies if desired. In other words, by reading books like this, I try to rehearse the content at the same time I learn how to present technical information in an accessible manner

How much #cultural #variation around the globe is explained by #ecology?

"Results suggest that, on average, ecology explains a substantial amount of #human cultural variation above and beyond #spatial and #cultural #autocorrelation. The amount of variation explained depended on the metrics used, with current levels and average levels of ecological conditions explaining the greatest amounts of variance in human culture on average (16% and 20%, respectively)"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2023.0485

Caio Jardim-Sousa wrote about #statistics: "I am particularly concerned about the willingness of some areas to carry out analyses with categorical thresholds, orders and aggregations of quantities. But it is all the more difficult to discuss as we deal with the pride of researchers, who probably profit from the statistical and “quasi-experimental” camouflage of their publications. Tell a social scientist that their assumptions about the data have some bias, and they shall come around to entangle truisms about the philosophy of science."
Found in https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/ via @blair_fix #reputation #science #socialScience #sociology #publishing #DK #autocorrelation

Caio Jardim-Sousa wrote about #statistics: "I am particularly concerned about the willingness of some areas to carry out analyses with categorical thresholds, orders and aggregations of quantities. But it is all the more difficult to discuss as we deal with the pride of researchers, who probably profit from the statistical and “quasi-experimental” camouflage of their publications. Tell a social scientist that their assumptions about the data have some bias, and they shall come around to entangle truisms about the philosophy of science."
Found in https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/ via @blair_fix #reputation #science #socialScience #sociology #publishing #DK #autocorrelation