Quantifying

Introduction This blog is going to be about everything quantitative, focusing on applications of mathematical and statistical modelling. Not cool eh? Well, hopefully you'll find otherwise. Mathematics has been around for millennia and was first used for essentials such as counting things. More exciting applications soon developed in geometry and astronomy. This happened because people observed the regularity of the movements of the moon and the stars. Useful things came out of that very early such as the ability to navigate. But the ability to develop statistical models was a long time coming and wasn't to do with the lack of data. Conceptually statistics seems difficult and many ideas, even as simple as the mean, took a long time to gain acceptance. A great article on this is "An average understanding" by Simon Raper in the Royal Statistical Society's Significance magazine which you can find online. We take this concept for granted but it was only i...