Happy B’day, ‘Og!

This blog started a year ago with the definitely poor prediction that “I will most likely not update it fairly often”… I have been spending an increasing amount of time on the ‘Og, in reply to an increasing number of connections, and I am not sure this is an efficient strategy, but I do like this media as a way to immediately discuss about read papers and tech’ reports. (I wish journals like Bayesian Analysis would allow for a bloggin’ section, even though I understand this is a severe commitment because of moderation issues.) As pointed by Andrew Gelman, bloggin’ is dangerously addictive! Here’s, by popular demand, the top of the hits over the past year:

Title	Views
Of black swans and bleak prospects	898
Tornado in Central Park	864
Bayes’ Theorem	595
ABC in Paris, June 26	383
About	306
Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihood	279
Reference prior for logistic regression	257
Bayesian p-values	229
Anomalies in the Iranian election	212

Interestingly, and reassuringly!, besides both first entries that address highly popular topics, the other hits are about statistical topics! And the list includes Bayes’ Theorem, ABC and SMC.