sigmas

It would annoy me when people used sigmas as capital Es, as in “My Big Fat GRSSK Wedding”.

Matthew Yglesias » Greek Tragedy 2010

Every few years there will be some kid 5 sigmas out on the right tail, and you offer her a fellowship.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing to Get More Time on Exams 2009

AFAIU inflation is the one piece holding out on lower sigmas, say 2.6 s or so.

Hubble Takes a New "Deep Field" Image with Wide Field Camera 3 | Universe Today 2009

Even if primary turnout is 20% and split evenly between the two parties, three sigmas is still 750,000 people.

Matthew Yglesias » Debate Wrap-Up 2007

My sigmas have always been free of accents, but I did once dream that every sigma ultima I wrote became a zeta and every other sigma was written as an ultima.

What dreams may come . . . 2007

For a white supremacist bookstore, the underlying idea as usually expressed; measurements on racial differences generally yield deltas between sets smaller than the sigmas withing them is not rational.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Privacy Law and Ethics Questions: 2007

Using the data for Walhalla extracted from hcn_doe_mean_data and hcn94mea-asc, I found the following outliers identified by flags S (3 to 5 sigmas) and X (more than 5 sigmas):

A Second Look at USHCN Classification « Climate Audit 2007

Now, in vS04 estimator which is ICE, calibration period data is used to obtain estimates of and sigmas.

von Storch et al 2004 in IPCC AR4 « Climate Audit 2007

What the roly-poly or serpentine sigmas signify in your subsconscious though, I can't really fathom.

What dreams may come . . . 2007

I think it is fair to say that no matter the particular characteristic or the group of people to whom we refer, us scientific types are always assuming a Poisson distribution and are concerned with a couple of sigmas around the mean, NOT the tails.

Archive 2006-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006