Recently I had my private nightmare trying to explain…, well, better defend our poor ‘average’; it is most probably the most used and abused statistical measure, and is not always well employed. For starters, the biggest confussion between it and …
Yesterday I was talking to my friend and colleague Pau Rausell-Köster, from the Research Unit in Cultural Economics (Universitat de València), about the Netflix Prize. We were discussing about the foundations of taste and preferences, and how it was quite …
Time and again I’m thinking of the errors people commit; yes, commit, not make, I explain you the reason for my assertion. In statistics, when we have a declared statement (“null hypothesis” we say) we have two options, haven’t we?: …