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What then are statistics?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

In the previous posting, we made an attempt to understand what statistics is all about. Thanks for the compliments from all readers especially about the article ‘statistics aren’t just figures’, may God bless you to read even more!
Let’s make an attempt to define statistics without reservations. Statistics is all encompassing and therefore, it […]

stochastic behaviour of the US elections

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Generation of probabilities for different scenarios, where scenarios are elections in different states has been and is still a point of contention for the DP primaries in the search algorithm for the US president in 2008. Each day that goes by Obama and Clinton hope to maximize the electral votes in those candidate […]

Stochastic Programming

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

I haven’t been lost, but just out here in the field collecting data for this damn PhD research. The good news is that I have been cleared to collect all the data I need for my research by the management of civil aviation authority, but still going through the bureaucracies and i do hope that […]

what is meant by stochastic?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Generally, stochastic (pronounced stow-KAS-tik, from the Greek stochastikos, or “skilled at aiming,” since stochos is a target) describes an approach to anything that is based on probability or chance occurrence. In science, a stochastic approach is one in which values are obtained from a corresponding sequence of jointly distributed random variables.
Classic examples of the stochastic […]

Exciting moments

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I take this opportunity to welcome you to this website… The purpose of this website mainly is to be used as a plate form for sharing the unending knowledge. I am sure you know you can do a lot, but not much alone. So I look forward to an exciting moment. Besides, sharing knowledge, we […]