Peter Bruce

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Peter Bruce is President of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com. He is the developer of Resampling Stats software and taught resampling statistics at UMD and elsewhere. He is the co-author of Data Mining for Business Intelligence (Wiley, 2nd ed., 2010).

Eugenics – journey to the dark side at the dawn of statistics

By Peter Bruce, Statistics.com on April 27, 2016 in Correlation, Eugenics, Karl Pearson, Statistics
Today is the 80th anniversary of the death of Karl Pearson, one of the founding father of statistics (correlation coefficient, principal components, the p-value, and much more). He was also deeply involved with eugenics, a jarring reminder that truth often comes bundled with a measure of darkness.
Big Data accelerates medical research? Or not?

By Peter Bruce, Statistics.com on October 26, 2014 in Big Data, Healthcare, Overfitting, Research
Take a look at how big data in healthcare brings big opportunities, but along with those opportunities come great risk if statistics aren't carefully applied to those large datasets.
Perfume, computer programming, and Harvard

By Peter Bruce, Statistics.com on October 8, 2014 in edX, Harvard, Programming, Statistics.com
What is the connection between Perfume, computer programming, and Harvard education? Peter Bruce explains.

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