What are the chances of that?

What are the chances that I review a book with this title, a few months after reviewing a book called What is luck?! This one is written by Andrew Elliott, whose Is that a big number? I reviewed a wee bit earlier… And that the cover of this book involves a particularly unlucky sequence of […]

a chance (?) encounter

As I was cycling to Paris Dauphine, a few days ago, I spotted someone sitting on a bench and working on a laptop who suspiciously looked like… Andrew Gelman! As I knew Andrew was in Paris that week, and as we were reasonably close to Dauphine, this did not sound like a zero probability event. […]

chance call for book reviewers

Since I have been unable to find local reviewers for my CHANCE review column of the above recent CRC Press books, namely Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Treatments, Moreno et al. Combinatorial Inference in Geometric Data Analysis, Le Roux et al. Time Series Clustering and Classification, Maharaj et al. Textual Data Science with R, Bécue-Bertaut […]

put it to the people [last chance?!]

chance meeting

As I was travelling to Coventry yesterday, I spotted this fellow passenger on the train from Birmingham with a Valencia 9 bag, and a chat with him. It was a pure chance encounter as he was not attending our summer school, but continued down the line. (These bags are quite sturdy and I kept mine […]