2020 – Page 2 – Quant Knot

Making sense of Bayes’ Theorem

So today I was trying to help out my twin brother with understanding a statistics problem involving Bayes' Theorem. Besides the fact that they always ask probability problems in the most confusing way possible, very few actually explain Bayes' Theorem very well. So here I attempt to provide some additional…

By Simon Liles September 24, 2020Data Science, Education, Statistics

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 4 Probability Theory

In this article I attempt to answer questions regarding the very important and equally difficult subject of probability. *Cheering noises* A. Based on the table, calculate the following probabilities: BB1A1020A12040Table 1: Given probabilities A1: Event A occurs. The probability of event A occurring would be about 30/90 or 33% chance…

By Simon Liles September 18, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 3 Bivariate Analysis

For Module 3 a single data set is given and Bivariate Analysis must be performed on it. Here the data is from airport security data representing the number of pre-boarding screenings performed and the number of security violations detected from the year 1988 to 1999. The table below is a…

By Simon Liles September 11, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 2 Descriptive Statistics

For the second module of LIS 4273 there were 2 sets of data given, each to have their central tendency and variation described using the R Language. The finding of the various statistics is relatively easy, the important aspect though is to understand what is being described. Below is the…

By Simon Liles September 4, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

Sailing

Trial by Fire: Learning to Pilot a Small Watercraft

So today I had the opportunity to go out in my parent's tender today with my brother. The reason for this blog post is this was my first time piloting our tender, and I just felt like sharing this experience. Our tender is an Offshore Cruising Tender 330 which I…

By Simon Liles August 31, 2020Sailing