Statistics Discussions

Information is key to the estimation of risk. In economics and finance we learned that risk is usually measured as a part of the interest rate. Statistics gives us a chance to estimate risk based on probabilities. The attached article gives you some insight into how the measurement of risk is accomplished. After reading the short article in uploads section, describe how you measure risk in your work, or provide any other observations related to risk and statistical probabilities.

There is so much data floating around that it become a nearly incomprehensible mess. The attached article in the uploads section discusses the issue of “little data.” Given that a single data point does not establish a trend, do you know of any examples where decisions were reached with minimal data? Were those decisions valid?

An interesting statistics and conclusions is, “98% of all murderers ate potatos within 24 hours of committing their crime. We should therefore eliminate french fries from the diet to dramatically reduce murder.” The attached article in the uploads section discusses how policy makers can use numbers. Review the article and make comments regarding the abuse of data and statistics.