Se giovedì 20 agosto si azzeccasse la combinazione vincente al Superenalotto, l’ambito “6″, si vincerebbero quasi 140 milioni di euro. E’ possibile pensare a qualche strategia collettiva per poter giocare una combinazione vincente? I numeri sconsigliano quest’ipotesi. Potremmo raccogliere anche l’adesione di 1 milione di persone, convincendole a giocare 100 euro a testa. In questo modo [...]
(The New York Times) For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics By STEVE LOHR Published: August 6, 2009 With the explosion of digital data, statisticians can earn $125,000 in their first year after getting a doctorate…(more)NN
From a Keynote Presentation by Hal Varian – Chief Economist, Google, to the 2008 Almaden Institute – “Innovating with Information”. The full presentation (as well as all the other presentations at the very interesting meeting) is available at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/… Hal Varian makes the argument that with data in huge supply and statisticians in short supply, [...]
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