Directionally Challenged

Why was the statistician always getting lost?


Too many random walks.

Adventures in Executive Compensation

Pitfalls of Stock-Based Compensation

Money Supply: M1, M2, M3

Econometrician's Favorite Radio Station?

Econometricians do not have favorite radio stations--they prefer white noise!

Weak Instruments

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The Most Popular Statistic

While the mean is the least popular statistic, the mode is the most popular statistic. No wonder statistics is confusing.

Beating Expectations

Outliers

Are outliers true observations?
Who knows. There are a lot of liars out there.

My ARMA Hurts

Forecasting is good, but wouldn't five-casting be better?

Personal Ad

Statistic Looking for an Estimator. Unbiased and consistent behavior a must. Plus if meet CRLB. Should look good in a hat.

SAS vs. STATA

SAS--pros: dealing with large data sets, merging data.

STATA--pros: Stata the art.

Cereal Correlation

The Least Popular Statistic

What is the least popular statistic?

The mean. It's just not that friendly (it's mean).

Inaugural Joke

A time series joke...




Hint: The first observation's subscript is read as "not" (as opposed to zero).