Nick MaxwellHeat Pumps are Quiet and CheapHeat pumps have gotten cheaper than other home options and have gotten quieter than they were. Older heat pumps were so loud, they would…Jul 12, 2023Jul 12, 2023
Nick MaxwellWhat is a Standard Deviation?This blog post is part of a series. The start of the series is here.Jun 27, 2022Jun 27, 2022
Nick MaxwellAnother Sampling DistributionIt’s important to see how to find sampling distributions of percents. I’m going to repeat the exercise in the previous Sampling…Jun 25, 2022Jun 25, 2022
Nick MaxwellSampling DistributionsData Matters is an introduction to statistics that I wrote 25 years ago. In 2004, Michael Kahn reviewed Data Matters and reported that the…Jun 24, 2022Jun 24, 2022
Nick MaxwellA Data Matters ReviewIn 2004, Michael Kahn wrote a review of Data Matters that appeared in The American Statistician, the flagship journal of the American…Jun 22, 2022Jun 22, 2022
Nick MaxwellGood Night, Data MattersThere’s a meme, “It’s dead, Jim.” It’s from Star Trek: Something has died, and someone hasn’t accepted that fact yet. That’s where I am…Jun 21, 2022Jun 21, 2022
Nick MaxwellWhy Am I Investing in Data Matters?In the preface to Data Matters, George Cobb asked a very sensible question: “Yet another book for the first course in statistics?” It’s a…Jun 16, 2022Jun 16, 2022
Nick MaxwellUnintended Lessons in How Intro Stats is TaughtSixty years ago, Marshall McLuhan declared “The medium is the message.” His point was that communications contain the content of the…Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
