Category: Statistics

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 […]

Extreme Value Theory: Looking for the unusual

By Owen LiPosted on February 14, 2021Posted in StatisticsNo Comments

Whether we’re famous statisticians or just regular people, we look towards the majority. We even have terms for this, like groupthink. Traditionally, statisticians take data and focus their analysis on the majority of the data. But what if we didn’t want to look at the majority? What if we wanted to focus on the extremes […]