What Are the Chances?

A couple years back, I wrote on the chances of various "splits" in bridge (and explained why this is something bridge players care about) in 

The NY Times answers it

I play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, a game akin to football in that there are end zones, but akin to soccer in that there is constant action until someone scores.  In Ultimate, you can only advance by t...

For the last year or so, I used my other site for blogging.  You can find those posts at www.what-are-the-chances.blogspot.com .  

I feel like I've written this too many times, but here we go again. There was a splendid article in the 

I have been working with Joe Jansen on the Citibike data in the R Language.  Citibike is New York's bike sharing program, which started in may and currently has...

If you know how to play bridge, skip to the fourth paragraph! In bridge, 13 cards are dealt to each of 4 players (so all 52 cards are dealt).  Players sitting across from each other are...

A North Slope real estate broker (named North) is trying to convince you that North Slope is a more affluent neighborhood than South Slope.  To prove it, he explains that professionals in North Slope...

One reason for quotes like there are "there are lies, damn lies, and statistics" is because of graphs like these:  

With the upcoming election, I have been following my favorite prediction site: electoral-vote.com.  That site has a big map showing current predictions state-b...

About a year ago, I read a book called "Born to Run," by Christopher McDougall, who last week wrote

In my professional work, I like being the statistical sleuth, trying to figure out whether a person or company cheated, and how much they cheated. Thus it was with a lot of interest that I read a rece...

A couple years ago, I wrote about a study that looked at the effect of a seawater nasal spray on the health of children (see

I think that's how the ad line went. When? maybe 25 years ago.   Well, it seems to apply now. Sudden acceleration. Mention a problem with a car, any problem with any car, and pe...

So says an article in today's Science Daily, which reports on a recent study at Northwestern of children from the Philippine...