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Katie Howgate

STOR-i PhD Student
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Hypergraphs – not just a cool name!

April 29, 2021 Katie Howgate 1 Comment

We are currently choosing our PhD project preferences and as they thought it might be useful, this week the MRes…

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Graph Theory 101

April 27, 2021 Katie Howgate

If I mention a graph most of us first think of a scatterplot or a bar chart or something we…

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Which treatment would you prefer? Simpson’s Paradox

April 16, 2021 Katie Howgate

Let’s pretend we have collected some data. It’s from two separate groups but is measuring the same thing. We draw…

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Playing with emotions to increase film revenue

April 8, 2021 Katie Howgate

Is there a way that a screenwriter can to choose to write their film to increase the chances of it…

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Travelling Salesmen Problem… with a Drone

March 26, 2021 Katie Howgate

The travelling salesmen problem is a pretty old problem, it was studied back in 1930 and continues to play a…

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Fraud in the 2020 US Election?!?!

March 12, 2021 Katie Howgate 1 Comment

We all know that both during and after the 2020 United States presidential election Donald Trump threw a number accusations…

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How to use ggplot2

February 27, 2021 Katie Howgate

Up until now my graph plotting skills in R have been severely lacking! Usually consisting of a lot of googling…

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A Bayesian Approach To Finding Lost Objects

February 8, 2021 Katie Howgate 2 Comments

Ever wondered how they find lost objects in the sea? For example, when a plane such as Air France Flight…

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Filed under: Bayesian, Bayesian search theory

How to build a credit scorecard

February 7, 2021 Katie Howgate

I thought I’d write here about one of the things in my job that lead me to start thinking about…

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Bootstrapping

February 5, 2021 Katie Howgate

Imagine you have a sample of data and you wish to calculate the mean. Now you can easily calculate the…

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

The answer is trivial and is left as an exercise for the interested reader.