Starship Asterisk*

Beyond wrote:And look at all those 'raided' pic-a-nic baskets My-my-my. So many yummies for the tummies. The hills were alive with the sound of ing. La la la la la, la la la la la-a-a.

• I met a traveller from an antique land
  Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
  Stand by in Oklahoma. Near them on the sand,
  Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
  And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
  Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
  The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
  And on the pedestal these words appear:
  "My name is Bzystanderas, king of kings:
  Look on my posts, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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neufer wrote: BMAONE23 2692 / 1.12 ppd since Wed Feb 23, 2005 / Commentator Model 1.23
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias wrote:

Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.

neufer wrote:Bzystanderas — Most Pathetic King of Kings

bystander wrote:

neufer wrote:
Bzystanderas — Most Pathetic King of Kings

Hmmm, might have to change my sobriquet and paramountcy.

• Huh

orin stepanek wrote:
2700 posts today!

• The Resident Giza

neufer wrote: BMAONE23 2705 / 1.12 ppd since Wed Feb 23, 2005 / Commentator Model 1.23
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neufer wrote:

Starship Asterisk*

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owlice wrote:Orin, it's right here, still awaiting delivery of the hot tub!

by bystander » Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:12 pm

It some how got retitled. I changed it back.

bystander wrote:It some how got retitled. I changed it back.

Ann wrote:
Interesting. Two of my posts seem to have been mislaid. I'm pretty sure I had 1702 this morning, and now I'm down to 1700. Oh well, 1700 is a nice round number, and we all know there's a mysterious hidden black hole somewhere in your bedroom or your office, that keeps swallowing odd socks, keys, graded tests and perhaps the odd Starship Asterisk* post as well. I'll complain about the posts when I've found my mother's keys; it's been a while now since I mislaid a student's test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-test wrote:

Student's t-test (for location problems)

<<A t-test is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student's t distribution, if the null hypothesis is supported.

The t-statistic was introduced in 1908 by William Sealy Gosset, a chemist working for the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland ("Student" was his pen name). Gosset had been hired due to Claude Guinness's policy of recruiting the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to apply biochemistry and statistics to Guinness' industrial processes. Gosset devised the t-test as a way to cheaply monitor the quality of stout. He published the test in Biometrika in 1908, but was forced to use a pen name by his employer, who regarded the fact that they were using statistics as a trade secret.

Among the most frequently used t-tests are:

• A one-sample location test of whether the mean of a normally distributed population has a value specified in a null hypothesis.
  
  A two sample location test of the null hypothesis that the means of two normally distributed populations are equal. All such tests are usually called Student's t-tests, though strictly speaking that name should only be used if the variances of the two populations are also assumed to be equal; the form of the test used when this assumption is dropped is sometimes called Welch's t-test.
  
  A test of the null hypothesis that the difference between two responses measured on the same statistical unit has a mean value of zero. For example, suppose we measure the size of a cancer patient's tumor before and after a treatment. If the treatment is effective, we expect the tumor size for many of the patients to be smaller following the treatment. This is often referred to as the "paired" or "repeated measures" t-test.
  
  A test of whether the slope of a regression line differs significantly from 0.>>

Ann wrote:Interesting. Two of my posts seem to have been mislaid. I'm pretty sure I had 1702 this morning, and now I'm down to 1700. Oh well, 1700 is a nice round number, and we all know there's a mysterious hidden black hole somewhere in your bedroom or your office, that keeps swallowing odd socks, keys, graded tests and perhaps the odd Starship Asterisk* post as well. I'll complain about the posts when I've found my mother's keys; it's been a while now since I mislaid a student's test.

Ann

(So, with two of my previous posts having gone to the post office in the sky, this post of mine will be my number 1701. It sounds like an early enlightenment space opera to me: 1701, A Space Odyssey!)