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A sister blog is born

The Burns Statistics blog had it’s first real post today (about the corner function in the BurStMisc package).  The blog will talk mainly about the R language, statistics and programming — it will not have the financial focus of the Portfolio Probe blog. The posts on the Burns Statistics blog will be announced on Twitter … Continue reading

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Thank you government

You probably thought the title was ironic.  Why should that be? Mutual benefit Falkenblog has a post that includes: When the barista says ‘thank you’ for buying coffee, and I say ‘thank you’ back, we have a double thank you moment, symptomatic of positive gains from trade. In contrast, I don’t say ‘thank you’ when … Continue reading

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