
Jacob Colvin
my email address is jbcolvin at fastmail dot fm
since this webpage is not likely to be updated very often, bio type
information available at
www.myspace.com/jbcolvin
Local Links that may be of interests
- Behrens Distribution information
http://jbcolvin.fastmail.fm/behrens/
The Behrens distribution is similar to the t distribution, hover in the two
sample problem the Behrens distribution can handle unequal variance
situations while the t distribution relies on various kinds of kludges to
approximate unequal variances. As noted in the
readme, I was
able to find an efficient method for calculating this distribution and have
been made
mention
on Peter M. Lee's website for his book on Bayesian Statistics.
- Boxplots and outlier detection
http://jbcolvin.fastmail.fm/JSM2006/
I went to Seattle in August of 2006 for a statistics conferences and
presented a poster with Prof Trumbo from CSUEB on boxplots that analyzed the
outlier detection rate for boxplots.