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• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: A physicist stumbles into a statistical field

  By a virtual game of Chinese Whispers (in which no Chinese were involved), I found out about a paper on ar Χ iv where a poor unsuspecting ...

• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Statistical Modelling: The Bits Pt. 1

  It's a sad fact of life that it's too short, so we don't have time to learn everything that we need to know. For most biologists (and proba...

• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Focus on DIC

  This is something that's only of interest to Bayesians, so the rest of you can look away. In a couple of analyses with BUGS, I've seen compa...

• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Book review: Bayesian Methods for Ecology

  Review of Bayesian Methods for Ecology ( NHBS ) by Mick McCarthy I've been meaning to write this for a couple of weeks, but I've either bee...

• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Re-Cell Cycling Front-loading Pt. I

  Last week, my bestest friend DaveScot put up a post at Uncommon Descent (the intelligent design blog of William Demski and other illuminarie...

• Deep Thoughts and Silliness: Jerry Fodor fails Evolution 101

  The latest "fun" on the evolutionary (pro and anti) parts of the web has been discussion of an article in the London Review of Books by Jer...