Dear All:
Howsoever funny it may sound, there is a statistical learning in this story
by Steve also. The term statistical significance has been used and misused.
Even one in a million is significant. Neither mean nor proportion can be
zero if there is a single occurrence.
Looking from a different angle, a single contradiction is enough to refute
any theory. Also, all outliers, when genuine, have a story to
tell--sometimes of great significance.
~Abhaya Indrayan
http://MedicalBiostatistics.synthasite.com
http://indrayan.weebly.com
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:06 AM, steve messenger <
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>
> There was once an annual summer conference held at the Royal Statistical
> Society in London and over 500 eminent statisticians from all around the
> world were in attendance to hear a major speech on a significant
> breakthrough in computational algorithms. Mid-way through the afternoon,
> during one of the key lectures to this loft assembly, one of the
> statisticians in the audience got up from his chair, walked to the middle
> of
> one of gangways, flapped his arms each side of himself very gently, and
> began to rise up into the air, went right across the top of the room and
> out
> through an open window. But no one in the room batted an eyelid - because 1
> in 500 is not significant.
>
>
>
> Anon
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> Dear ALLSTAT,
>
>
>
> In November of last year, you may remember that the Queensland Branch held
> a
> funny stats competition for our branch's Christmas 2010 event. There were
> 31
> entries which came from all over the world and the winner of the $200
> dollar
> Amazon voucher was Clive Osmond, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit,
> University of Southampton, UK.
>
>
>
> His winning story can be found at http://www.statsoc.org.au/winners.htm
> along with the stories voted into second and third place.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Helen Johnson
>
>
>
> President, QLD Branch
>
> Statistical Society of Australia
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