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What do Statisticians do?

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segment from “That 70’s show”:

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August 28th, 2011 at 12:49 pm

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-08-03

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-07-13

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July 13th, 2011 at 11:11 am

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-07-06

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July 6th, 2011 at 11:11 am

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BibTex styles and papers

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I’m currently writing a fairly important document, hence I want to make sure that the references work well and look well. I’m using papers in conjunction with TextMate. Here are the requisites I have for my reference system:

1. it should be author, year style. \citep{…} and \citet{…} should work

2. electronic sources should work properly. I don’t have many, but the few should be correct. I want for an electronic source to be included the link and the rough date when I last accessed it (month, year)

3. journal articles that are new enough such that they include an doi, the doi should show up and be a link such that the reader can easily access the reference.

I was a little surprised that papers exports any website as “@webpage”. Previously I had done that using “@misc” with howpublished={“Electronic source”}. I wasn’t aware of the little script urlbst, that can deal with @webpage, and solves requisites 2 and 3. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get urlbst to work with my own style file, which I created about 6 years ago… jeez… I didn’t want to go through the hassle of creating one by myself. It was not overly easy to find a suitable style file, but I finally found one at Elsevier, which I adapted using urlbst. Nice. Now everything looks and behaves nicely. Cheers to that!

Here’s the final bst-file I ended up liking.

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July 5th, 2011 at 9:57 am

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We had Fun at the University’s Open House

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On Saturday, we displayed some experiments at the open house of the university. The kids that I’ve seen were all very enthusiastic about water. Building a dam is always more exciting than watching how a river flows. That’s how it goes. 😉

After too many dams were built, and no more river was to be seen, we started the syphon, to clean everything up. See video below.

 

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July 4th, 2011 at 4:42 pm

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-06-29

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  • The difference btw. a small positive and a zero prior probability is the difference btw. a skeptical and a closed mind. http://bit.ly/j7DhCy #

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June 29th, 2011 at 11:11 am

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Come and See How a River Forms

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The University of Stuttgart is hosting an open house, this saturday July 2nd, from 1pm to 7pm. Our institute, the institute of hydraulic engineering will have some cool displays! The show is run by yours truly!

We are going to be on the ground floor of Pfaffenwaldring 7, close to the cafeteria. The entire program is available online, and there’s more info on the university’s webpage

Come and see how a river forms!

Meandering river froms in a bed of sand

 

Watch how a poorly designed dam fails, while a well designed dam withstands the fllod

Watch how a poorly designed dam fails, wile a well designed one withstands the floods

Be instructed and entertained by smart and helpful enivironmental engineers

Two guys playing with sand

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June 29th, 2011 at 9:14 am

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Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-06-22

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June 22nd, 2011 at 11:11 am

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Water Consumption in Edmonton During Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Game

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Spikes of Water Consumption During Gold Medal Olympic Hockey Game

 

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June 18th, 2011 at 9:36 am

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