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error bars [reposted]

A definitely brilliant entry on xkcd that reflects upon the infinite regress of producing error evaluations that are based on estimates. A must for the next class when I introduce error bars and confidence intervals!

This entry was posted on March 3, 2019 at 12:19 am and is filed under Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags , , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “error bars [reposted]”

  1. The naked statistician (aka Russell Bowater) Says:
    March 3, 2019 at 5:14 am

    You still teach confidence intervals?!
    Ah come on, next you’ll be saying that Type I and Type II errors are still in your syllabus.

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