John D. Cook

less info
meta site favicon meta user | stack exchange network profile network profile
1,774 reputation
518
bio website johndcook.com
location Houston, TX
age
visits member for 2 years, 10 months
seen yesterday
stats profile views 394

I'm a very applied mathematician and software developer.

I blog at The Endeavour and I'm @JohnDCook on Twitter.

Other contact info.

31 Answers

newest activity votes
95
Famous statistician quotes
35
Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?
24
What's the difference between probability and statistics?
22
Famous statistician quotes
19
What is the community's take on the Fourth Quadrant?
16
Why is multiple comparison a problem?
15
Python as a statistics workbench
14
Free statistical textbooks
8
Why is median age a better statistic than mean age?
7
Moments of a distribution - any use for partial or higher moments?
6
Complete substantive examples of reproducible research using R
6
Open Source statistical textbooks?
6
What is your favorite layman's explanation for a difficult statistical concept?
5
Famous statistician quotes
5
Building a Statistics Library, with Knapsack Constraint
5
Eliciting priors from experts
4
Recreating traditional null hypothesis testing with Bayesian methods
4
What R packages do you find most useful in your daily work?
4
What book would you recommend for non-statistician scientists?
3
Operations on a probability distributions of continuous random variables
3
What is tied data in the context of a rank correlation coefficient?
3
Product of beta distributions
3
What is numerical overflow?
3
Testing random variate generation algorithms
3
What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook?
3
Testing random variate generation algorithms
2
Conjugate prior for a Gamma distribution
2
How to teach students who fear statistics?
2
How can I test if given samples are taken from a Poisson distribution?
2
Resources for learning R
1 2