The drive from Galway to Waterford is my go to time for catching up on #podcasts .This one is a takedown of #freakonomics.
Kind of sad nobody got to witness the faces I was making as they read some of the passages.
A good example of how data can be manipulated to further a particular agenda. Or where its interpretation relies on bias.
Recommended to all #datanerds out there.
What do you call errors introduced to a #MonteCarlo #simulation by choosing to sample one input parameter's distribution, and model a related parameter in a simplified manner?
Years ago, a coworker named this in an email. Now neither of us recall, but I had found papers with the term at the time.
E.g. bootstraping floods from a set of historic events, based on probabilities at one location, and this under-represents floods at other locations.
Peter Tennant, PhD
Eilís Ní Chaoimh
Joran
Evan Heisman