22 stories tagged statistics, newest first.
18 points by porridgeraisin | 2 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post using Lorenz curves and Little's Law to quantify how latency percentiles contribute to mean latency and the cost and capacity of tail latency.
12 points by ripe | 6 comments
A New York Times Magazine piece arguing that gambling logic underpins Silicon Valley products, including prediction markets; the capture shows a bot-block page.
124 points by zaik | 85 comments
Andrew Gelman blog post about Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson posting 258 working papers to SSRN in 2026, apparently aided by AI.
158 points by viraj_shah | 201 comments
Substack post analyzing Burning Man 2026 deaths against age-standardized national death rates, arguing its historically low rate reflects selection bias.
26 points by alexmolas | 38 comments
A blog post by Alex Molas arguing that "Jev" cannot be calibrated, likely discussing probabilistic calibration of a model or metric.
358 points by flowercalled | 106 comments
Guest post by Cynthia Dwork and others on Scott Aaronson's blog arguing that banning noise infusion at the US Census Bureau creates a privacy emergency.
757 points by Aaronmacaron | 542 comments
Google's IPv6 statistics page showing the percentage of users accessing Google over IPv6, with an adoption graph and per-country data.
681 points by timr | 350 comments
Andrew Gelman blog post arguing a highly cited 2014 Management Science paper on corporate sustainability and performance is fatally flawed and uncorrected.
359 points by Kerrick | 153 comments
Steve Hanov's 2012 blog post arguing that a short epsilon-greedy multi-armed bandit algorithm outperforms traditional A/B testing.
380 points by seanhunter | 179 comments
ResearchGate listing for a 2023 paper reporting evidence from 350,757 coin flips that fair coins tend to land on the same side they started.
808 points by kgwgk | 424 comments
Blog post on Andrew Gelman's statistics blog discussing a suspicious numerical pattern in the announced results of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election.
353 points by colinprince | 224 comments
A Nightingale article by Nick Desbarats explaining why he stopped using box plots and whether other data visualization practitioners should too.
355 points by rmason | 116 comments
Scientific American opinion piece explaining how the Student's t-test, a common test of statistical significance, originated at the Guinness brewery and how it works.
462 points by explosion-s | 240 comments
Dan Luu essay examining suspicious discontinuities in data, such as income subsidy cliffs, and the perverse incentives that sharp thresholds create.
331 points by janandonly | 159 comments
Brick Insights statistics page charting the average price per part of Lego sets over the years.
319 points by apwheele | 131 comments
Blog post by Andrew P. Wheeler arguing that forecasts, such as Richard Rosenfeld's national crime rate forecasts in The Criminologist, should include error bars.
540 points by ljosifov | 187 comments
Blog post on Economics from the Top Down arguing that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a statistical artifact caused by autocorrelation.
440 points by ZunarJ5 | 79 comments
GitHub repository explaining types of data visualizations to avoid and why they are misleading, with R scripts and example data.
665 points by noelwelsh | 116 comments
Website for the free online textbook Introduction to Modern Statistics, Second Edition, by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin from the OpenIntro project.
325 points by fbartos | 220 comments
arXiv paper reporting 350,757 coin flips showing fair coins land on the same side they started slightly more often than chance.
865 points by tech234a | 431 comments
Kagi Search stats page showing a leaderboard of domains users most often block, lower, raise, or pin in their search personalizations.
359 points by alexmolas | 65 comments
Official website for the textbook An Introduction to Statistical Learning, offering free downloads of the R and Python editions plus resources and errata.