User contributions for AllenDowney
A user with 99 edits. Account created on 29 August 2006.
16 May 2024
- 15:1615:16, 16 May 2024 diff hist −3 m Proportional hazards model Reverting an incorrect edit -- sorry! current Tag: Manual revert
- 15:1615:16, 16 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Proportional hazards model No edit summary Tag: Reverted
22 March 2024
- 03:1003:10, 22 March 2024 diff hist +181 List of Colby College faculty →Arts and Humanities: Adding Charlie Bassett
20 October 2023
- 18:4418:44, 20 October 2023 diff hist −53 Sampling error Deleting a sentence that, in my opinion, creates confusion with sampling bias, which is a different issue -- and it is not generally true that random sampling causes bias in the sense of errors with non-zero mean. current
25 February 2023
- 15:3915:39, 25 February 2023 diff hist −16 m Misuse of p-values →Clarifications about p-values: Deleting prior and posterior because they are not needed and the first one is not quite right.
16 November 2021
- 23:1423:14, 16 November 2021 diff hist +158 N User:AllenDowney Creating a UserPage current
13 September 2021
- 13:1513:15, 13 September 2021 diff hist −1 m Library sort typo
- 13:1413:14, 13 September 2021 diff hist +10 m Library sort Replacing "he" with singular "they"
10 September 2021
- 13:1813:18, 10 September 2021 diff hist −32 m Phase change Removing cruft current
21 January 2021
- 15:5715:57, 21 January 2021 diff hist −24 m History of Guatemalan migrants in the United States →Caravana De Migrantes 2017-2018: Minor revisions for grammar and style
30 November 2020
- 14:5314:53, 30 November 2020 diff hist −38 Statistical classification →Bayesian procedures: Removing an unnecessary qualification -- these methods *do* provide more information; it is not a matter of "being viewed" as providing more information.
1 October 2020
- 20:5020:50, 1 October 2020 diff hist −131 Bayesian linear regression →Posterior distribution: I believe the expression I'm deleting is incorrect, because the final y should be y-hat. Rather than fix it, I'd like to delete it, because the corrected version would add little, and y-hat is not used elsewhere on the page.
28 May 2018
- 17:2617:26, 28 May 2018 diff hist −15 m Prisoner's dilemma Clarifying the statement of the game conditions
23 May 2018
- 14:3314:33, 23 May 2018 diff hist +5 m Weapons of Math Destruction →Overview: missing word
- 14:3214:32, 23 May 2018 diff hist +10 m Weapons of Math Destruction →Overview: missing word
- 14:3114:31, 23 May 2018 diff hist +1 m Weapons of Math Destruction O'Neil wrote the book, not the algorithms
3 March 2016
- 20:0920:09, 3 March 2016 diff hist 0 m Property (philosophy) No edit summary
26 January 2016
- 16:4616:46, 26 January 2016 diff hist +242 G. C. Danielson Adding links to FFT.
26 May 2015
- 16:4316:43, 26 May 2015 diff hist −1 m Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge typo
8 February 2013
- 19:4819:48, 8 February 2013 diff hist +28 List of statistics articles →U: Adding the unseen species problem
1 January 2013
- 20:0620:06, 1 January 2013 diff hist −68 Mixin Deleting a sentence that is probably more confusing than helpful, and arguably false.
15 December 2012
- 20:0620:06, 15 December 2012 diff hist +104 Walter (name) →Fictional
29 November 2012
- 16:4416:44, 29 November 2012 diff hist −255 Dirichlet distribution Undid revision 524517187 by AllenDowney (talk)
23 November 2012
- 16:1916:19, 23 November 2012 diff hist +255 Dirichlet distribution →Marginal distributions: Fixing an off-by-one error in the parameters.
20 October 2012
- 17:0817:08, 20 October 2012 diff hist +266 Talk:Spurious wakeup →Personal correspondence
- 14:1814:18, 20 October 2012 diff hist −772 Constructal theory Still working on NPOV.
- 14:1314:13, 20 October 2012 diff hist −7,306 Constructal theory Revising for NPOV, removing copyrighted material, removing unnecessary material that violates NPOV.
- 14:0914:09, 20 October 2012 diff hist −6,125 Constructal theory Removing copyrighted material and revising for NPOV.
13 September 2012
- 14:0714:07, 13 September 2012 diff hist +27 Template method pattern Minor rewrite.
23 May 2012
- 19:1619:16, 23 May 2012 diff hist −52 Information hiding Clarifying a clause that was flagged for clarification.
15 May 2012
- 17:2217:22, 15 May 2012 diff hist −4 m RSA (cryptosystem) →Key generation
21 April 2012
- 20:4520:45, 21 April 2012 diff hist −72 Foo Camp →External links: removing a link because linked article does not match link text.
28 March 2012
- 13:4113:41, 28 March 2012 diff hist +1 Dead Parrot sketch →Variations of the sketch: punctuation is the thief of time
5 February 2012
- 02:4502:45, 5 February 2012 diff hist −174 Closure (computer programming) →Example: Replacing an example that was more complicated than necessary to demonstrate the feature.
6 July 2011
- 01:2901:29, 6 July 2011 diff hist −3 m Kath Soucie →Appearances of Soucie's natural voice
- 01:2701:27, 6 July 2011 diff hist −6 Captain Planet and the Planeteers →Planeteers: replacing ironically with fittingly
29 June 2011
- 13:3813:38, 29 June 2011 diff hist −8 m A New Kind of Science →Originality and self-image: disambiguating link
7 June 2011
- 13:3013:30, 7 June 2011 diff hist +386 Talk:Hypergeometric distribution →Notation: permission to change notation?
31 May 2011
- 14:3614:36, 31 May 2011 diff hist +733 Beta distribution Adding section for generating variates
18 May 2011
13 May 2011
- 14:4914:49, 13 May 2011 diff hist −6 m Normal probability plot →Examples
11 May 2011
- 19:1219:12, 11 May 2011 diff hist −38 Overline →Math and science: linking to sample mean
21 April 2011
- 13:5713:57, 21 April 2011 diff hist +341 Talk:Builder pattern →Most of this page is copied: additional concern about use of copyrighted material
31 March 2011
- 00:3600:36, 31 March 2011 diff hist −114 Wave–particle duality deleting a sentence that should be under Alternative Views, or omitted altogether.
14 March 2011
- 18:2318:23, 14 March 2011 diff hist +1,300 Client–server model Expanding the intro paragraphs.
18 February 2011
7 February 2011
- 18:2418:24, 7 February 2011 diff hist 0 m Probability-generating function →Functions of independent random variables
5 December 2010
- 13:3113:31, 5 December 2010 diff hist −121 Cortisone →Side-effects: specified "oral use" and removed items that were not in the source material.
28 November 2010
- 17:4317:43, 28 November 2010 diff hist −5 m Naive Bayes classifier →Testing: small clarification
15 September 2010
- 16:2116:21, 15 September 2010 diff hist −755 Lotka–Volterra equations replacing the section on Kolmogorov models with a shorter description
