Sorrow Residual
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Sorrow Residual
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- it doesn’t work in the twentieth.” To do that you have to be as sure as possible which is the 20th—your real error must be small."

- Gosset ('Student') in 1937 in a letter to Egon (who was by then the editor of Biometrika and also the chair of UCL's Stats Dept)
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
- on a single set of data] are almost valueless . . . . You want to be able to say not only “We have significant evidence that if farmers in general do this they will make money by it,” but also “we have found it so in nineteen cases out of twenty and we are finding out why -
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"Obviously the important thing . . . is to have a low real error, not to have a
[statistically] “significant” result at a particular station. The latter seems to me to be nearly valueless in itself.... Experiments at a single station [that is, tests of statistical significance -
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Hey!
December 20, 2024 at 4:40 AM
the allure of the incredibly cheap vegetable oil is hard to ignore
November 19, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Ah wait, I think I understand what I was doing wrong. I mistook the nickname for the password and the actual password as a temporary ID. Thank you so much - sorry to bother you with this!
September 21, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Thanks for replying! I am using the ID generated by the app password in the field for the username
September 21, 2023 at 8:56 PM