Re: 9/10/2006 should be a Memorable Day in sci.stat.math


Jack Tomsky wrote:

Jack Tomsky wrote:
9/10/06 is the Day in which the lecture series
based
on the
new book "Portuguese Statistics for Dummies" was
announced,
published, and illustrated to the sci.stat.math
group.

This was timed to nearly coincide with the
9/11/2006
anniversary of Al-Quada disaster in an attempt to
avert the
ongoing Al Fonso, Afoso, Afonso disasters ongoing
for
weeks
and months in sci.stat.math.

It is the DAY of the Inaugural of the New Lecture
Series
based on the new book "Portuguese Statistics for
Dummies."

The new lecture series will be based on the same
STYLE of
posts by the eminent Portuguese Statisticians and
Founding-
Farters of that School of Statistics -- using the
SAME logic,
SAME concept, and the SAME inpenetrable
argumentum
ad Ignoratium presented by that School.

Readers should keep in mind that they will not
learn
much
about Hypothesis Testing in the Neyman Pearson
School
from this series of Portuguese Statistics for
Dummies
lectures.

Reason: The N-P theory had been thoroughly
explained
and illustrated for weeks before now.


It is time for the New, Improved, approach. The
appropriate
analogy might be "fight fire with fire" but that
would seem to
infringe upon Afonso's lecture "To find wood to
burn". So, the
appropriate analogy might be, "If you can't beat
it,
JOIN IT".

That would give the Afonsos a sense of
ACCOMPLISHMENT
in having conveyed the concept and axiomatic
foundations of
Portuguese Statistics (with a touch of literary
pizzas and poetry),
to glorify what TRUE statisticians haven't
learned in
all these
years while folks in sociology, economics, and
medicine had
already been practicing Portuguese Statistics for
years --
especially the idea of an "unbised estimate" --
sample until you
find what you like.

What a BEAUTIFUL concept that satistied
Thurstone's
concept of "Simple Structure" that had baffled
the
social-
scientists for years.

This should cut down the number of nuisance
SUBJECTS
tremendously. Because EVERY Afonso topic will
be
discussed under SOME heading of Portuguese
Statistics.

Don't you think that is a wonderful accidental
discovery of
lasting effect?

This is a PSA to alert all the newcomers and
long-time
residents of sci.stat.math the NEW, NEW, IMPROVED
environment of sci.stat.math for Statistical
discussions.

Henceforth, any VALID or semi-valid statistical
discussion
by any of the Afonsos will simply be ignored.
Not
killfiled, mind you. But IGNORED once it's seen
ot
be
of ZERO value in substance.


Any of the NOISE and Portuguese Statistics posted
by
ANY
of the Afonsos will be discussed under the
general
heading
and classification of "Portugese Statistics for
Dummies".

We now return you to your regular statistics
channels.

-- Reef Fish Bob.




Bob, where can I purchase this exciting book? ;>|

Jack

Since this book has every promise to be a Best
Seller, perhaps even
more wanted than Cassela & Berger's Solution Manual,
I have decided
to let Dr. Doofus to be my distributor.

If you don't know about Dr. Doofus, you should.

I recently featured him in my FAQ for the C&B
Solution Manual.

Dr. Doofus wrote (Nov 23, 2005)

Dear future statitsicians!

Dr. Doofus is pleased to announce that he just
inherited the complete
set of solutions in MP3 PDF (www) from the
Nigebrian Chambers of
Commerce, with the help of a very influential
wealthy representative.

If you would kindly agree to be a designated
beneficiary, Dr. Doofus
will personally morse-code, text, blog, or ipod the
solutions to you
absolutely for FREE!

With warm academic regards,
Dr.Doofus


I was so impressed by Dr. Doofus's benevolent and
sincere offer,
that I've decided then and there that I would him as
the agent,
publicity hound, and distributor, treasurer of my
Best Seller book.

However, because of the tremendous influence of the
Portuguese
Statistics for Dummies, given its predictable success
in the fields
of sociology, epidemiology, psychology, medicine,
economics,
and proctology, nobody, not even Bill Gates is rich
enough to be
able to give that book away for FREE because of the
printing
cost alone.

For that reason, I've priced the book at the initial
offering price
of $100 USD per copy ($1,000 for 12 copies; or
$1,000,000
for 15,000 copies <special prices for Bill Gates, and
anyone in
Forbe's Richest 100 list>. Dr. Doofus will be
awarded with a
generous offer of 20% for the selling of my book.

As the distribution and publicity agent of
"Portuguese Statistics
for Dummies", I can safely predict that Dr. Doofus
will join
Bill Gates and others in Forbe's 2008 List.

Because of the expected rush of international sales,
here are
some prices in foreign currencies:

United States $100.00 USD
Euro 79.00 EUR
United Kingdom 63.50 GBP
Canadian dollars 112.00 CAD
Australian dollars 133.00 AUD
Japanese Yen 11,685.00 JPY
Indian Rupees 4,623.00 INR
Switzerland Francs 125.00 CHF
South African Rand 736.00 ZAR

other currencies accepted:

Bulgaria leva 155.00 BGN
Deutsche Marks 155.00 DEM
Iran Rials 921,540.00 IRR
Iraq DInars 147,945.00 IQD
Russian Rubles 2,674.00 RUB
Thailand Bhat 3,737.00 THB

Payment in other currencies are negotiable.

-- Reef Fish Bob.
United Kingdom

Oooops. The United Kingdom was a residual that didn't belong there.
:-)


Bob, there are annual E-Mail Conferences in Nigeria. They even have a session on statistics.

Unfortunately, you sent that notice about 3 years too late. Else I
would have
invited you and Dr. Doofus to that Conference, as I invited Jim
Goodnight
(the SAS guy who had 3 employees in 1978 when I invited him to be one
of
the speakers in my Invited Session "Man-Machine Interaction and
Communication",
in the International Symposium on Applied Systems and Cybernetics
(I challenge anyone to name ONE discipline that does NOT fit somewhere
in that conference!) held in Acapulco, Mexico. That Cybernetic
Symposium
would put your Nigerian Conference to shame.

It was so well attended that the one-week Symposium (in which no
session
had an audience of size greater than 2 -- when, as Chairman of my
Invited Session, I did a little scouting the first day of the
conference,
except the speakers of the sessions of course. With that piece of
research result communicated to the invited speakers in my session,
I believe no one attended more than ONE session that entire week
-- and the session was OUR session, which was probably the best-
attended session of the entire week (I have no proof of that other
than I counted about 10 people who were not speakers. :-0 )

The overwhelming popularity of that session was probably because
I had TWO Presidents of Statistical Software packages, plus
several respectable statisticians in it).

The Conference produced so many volumes of hard-back Proceedings
(with less than half of the speakers contributing) that they stacked
higher
than several years' worth Proceedings in any conference I had ever
attended!of :-) Jim Goodnight was already making so much money
from SAS that he didn't bother to put a paper in the Proceedings,
That was actually the LAST time he ever attended a statistical
Conference as a speaker! We all had a wonderful time, discussing
statistics of course, ahem, on the beaches of Acapulco. I distinctly
recall that the parasails cost only $3 then for a ride. :-)

I DID have a paper that appeared on page 2310-2314 of Volume V
of that Symposium Proceedings.

This would be an ideal venue for you to hawk this book.

That book does not require any hawking! "Portuguese Statistics
for Dummies" will out-sell the Porter books by millions. <0)

Be sure to mention the chapter on the ground-breaking hybrid
Bayes-Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing framework.

http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm

Jack

Jack, I think you must have been confused by the Portuguese
Statistics Concepts! There's no Bayes, no Neyman, and no
Pearson! ALL unadulterated Portuguese axiomatic approach
to probability and statistics!!

-- Reef Fish Bob.

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