Month: March 2021

Dive into the world of Changepoints 📈

By Owen LiPosted on March 28, 2021Posted in StatisticsTagged changepoints, statisticsNo Comments

Image credit: https://techdaily.ca/ In this blog post, I will discuss a very popular area (particularly at Lancaster University) in statistics called Changepoints Analysis. Changepoint analysis has been an important field of study, with publications dating all the way back to the 1950’s. The applications of changepoint analysis can be found in many areas such as medicine and […]

Back to basics: A ‘New’ Way of Solving Quadratics

By Owen LiPosted on March 14, 2021Posted in Back-to-basicsTagged Back-to-basicsNo Comments

Happy π-day! To celebrate, let’s go all the way back to GCSE maths where we just little baby kids, most likely annoying (at least I was), learning about quadratic equations. Say we want to solve the following quadratic: Solving this just means we want to find the values of x which makes the entire equation equal […]