Archive for September, 2014
								
            
            
                        
            
            
                        
            	
		                    	
            		
            		
            		
            		
            		How to Make Truly Terrible Graphs: A Tutorial David L. Streiner, special guest contributor and co-author of excellent statistics texts Part 1 – Introduction   In 1968, when I was writing up my doctoral thesis, I needed to make some graphs showing how the different groups changed over time under various conditions. There were no […]
            	 
            	
            	
				
				            	
             
            
            						              
	Birth of the Blog 
			
This blog, like the book Lab Math  from which it springs (incompletely formed), will be about numbers. I will endeavor to:
1. showcase the basic and the practical, not the challenging or even the advanced;
2.. provide straightforward guidance for the unenthusiastic (“just do it exactly this way”);
3.. provide refreshers for those needing refreshment (whether they know it or not.)