The CLT
Suppose that you lived in a town with a population whose weights had a mean of 180lbs and a standard deviation of 9lbs. Now, some people in this town underwent a weight reduction program, and you want to know if it had a significant effect. Did the "intervention" work…
Making the @FT Covid Vaccine Visualization
Two weeks back, in the thread https://twitter.com/rahuldave/status/1425200284301725708, I talked about the visualization in this image from the financial times (@FT) https://www.ft.com/content/0f11b219-0f1b-420e-8188-6651d1e749ff?hcb=1 . Here I tackle the production of such an i…
Distributions
Last week I did a thread on the law of large numbers (LLN): https://twitter.com/rahuldave/status/1425883481821704192 or https://stories.univ.ai/lawoflargenumbers/. The essence was that the mean of N random variables drawn from a distribution converge to the mean µ of the distrib…