John the Math Guy

Regression. Such a strange name to be applied to our good friend, the method of least-squares curve fitting. How did that happen? My di...

A friend of mine, Renzo Shamey, was recently quoted by the New York Times. Well, I would like to think he's a friend of mine. More acc...

In the previous blog post, Statistics of multi-dimensional data, theory , I introduced a generalization of the standard deviation to three...

This blog post is the culmination of a long series of blog posts on the statistics of color difference data. Most of them just basically sa...

I follow Quora. I am not saying I am proud of that, but at least I will admit it. I look for questions in my topic of expertise, which is t...

Just in case you were hoping for another blog post about stupid memes, I can top those last few blogposts! ...