Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:41:48 PM, by Thakur.
“I enjoyed reading Chapter 6 (Measuring Risk: Introduction to the Monte Carlo Simulation). It was very informative. After reading it I tried to do the following using Excel. But I failed.
1). Simulating the Monty Hall Problem.
2). Simulating Birthdays
3). Genetics: Simulating Population Control
Can You [...]
Entries from February 2009
Chapter 6
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments
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Value of Foresight
February 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:54:25 PM, by RossShott.
“Hello Mr. Hubbard,
Your book “How to Measure Anything” is remarkable!
I am currently completing my Master of Technology in Futures Studies degree by working on my thesis project. The project entails fleshing out a Foresight Maturity Model (similar to a CMM or CMMI) recently [...]
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Books Related to Calibration
February 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, February 16, 2009 11:32:17 AM.
“I am looking for some material (articles or books) on the subject of Calibration. I want to be expert in Calibration.
Thakur”
I certaintly support your goal for becoming and expert in this topic. It is a well-studied topic but is still far too obscure in practical [...]
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I am concerned about the CI, median and normal distribution
February 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:16:38 PM, by andrey.
“Hello Douglas,
First of all let me say I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your book. I have a technical background (software engineering) and have always been surprised at how “irresponsible” some business-level decision making can be – based on gut instincts and who-knows-what. This [...]
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In Russian
February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Hello, i`ve short question – where i can find the book in Russian? On the site it is written that the translation exists.
I`m writing postgraduate research on the efficiency of IT – it is quite interesting to take a deep look into your methodology, but the translation can significantly increase the speed of this process))
Thanx [...]
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Standard Deviation and Destributions
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:20:28 AM, by lascar.
“Hello.
I’ve enjoyed the book and am trying to apply AIE to some of our IT decision making. Unfortunately I don’t have a statistician’s background and my college days are quite far away. So,’m trying to catch up on some basics. Wikipedia is amazingly [...]
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