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Statistical rules of thumb Gerald van Belle
Publisher: Wiley

Words ending in For example, two exceptions to the third rule are that the Spanish word for translation is traducción and the word for explanation is explicación. The Fed believes that demographic changes have lowered the amount of job creation needed to keep the A rule of thumb on Wall Street is that it takes about 150,000 jobs a month to keep up with the growth in the labor force and thereby keep the unemployment rate steady. Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal on the interpretation of employment statistics. And on a less flippant note, I came across this essay by Norvig” yesterday, taking Chomsky to task on his rubbishing of statistical approaches to understanding languages compared to rule-based approaches. Gerard van Belle's Statistical Rules of Thumb has piqued my curiosity at conferences. It turns out my work library has a copy, which has been fun to skim, or should I say, to thumb through. Here are four rules of thumb for converting English words in to Spanish. But the Fed's view is that “equilibrium” job growth is only 110,000 per month. Than rules of thumb to weigh essentially unquantifiable risks for political purposes. If you're of a rigorous turn of mind, you can get a pretty good handle on risks in repetitive situations that are susceptible to statistical analysis.