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Monthly Archive February, 2009

Sorry, you said you want a stats revolution?

Filed in R ,Tools
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ALL ABOUT REVOLUTION COMPUTING’S R DISTRIBUTION Decision Science News was intrigued by a company called REvolution Computing that got some attention of late for spinning their own mix of the R language for statistical computing and giving it away for free. So DSN asked to interview them to see what it’s all about Decision Science […]

Why do people continue to buy treadmills and exercise bikes?

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HOW TO MAKE MORE REALISTIC ESTIMATES OF FUTURE BEHAVIOR The Journal of Consumer Research is getting awfully good at getting articles picked up in the New York Times. The JCR Web site has directed our attention to an article by Robin Tanner and Kurth Carlson that looks people’s forecasts of their own future exercise behavior. […]

How to decide on a password

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PASSWORD CHART Most of us use the same password for many sites. And most of us have thought that it would be a good idea to use different passwords for different sites. But then many of us fear that if we do this, we are tempting fate to forget or lose some of those passwords. […]

The summer neuroscience meets decision making

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SUMMER WORKSHOP ON DECISION NEUROSCIENCE The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and INSEAD will jointly host a Summer Workshop entitled “Decision Neuroscience: How Neuroscience Can Inform Behavioral Decision Making Research – Overview, Methods & Applications”. The workshop is co-organized by Jim Bettman, Joe Kable, Hilke Plassmann and Carolyn Yoon, and will be held […]