Light posting for the next week or so.  I need to deal with some things I’ve been neglecting:

• Landscaping plans for the spring
• Catch up on reading – many back issues of The New Yorker and Harper’s, Moral Politics by George Lakoff
• Outline for a paper describing a statistically-robust F-test for deciding between signal hypotheses when the noise in your measurements is not normally-distributed
• Put to paper some ideas on integrating mathematical methods for color-based object detection and identification with shape-based and texture-based object detection and identification.
• I also want to submit a story in response to Andrew Gelman’s request for people to describe how they use statistical analyses in their daily lives – presumably in their work but not necessarily;-)

Get into the nitty gritty—tell me what you do, and why you’re doing it. I’ll collect these and then post them at the Statistics Forum, one a day for a year. I think that could be great, truly a unique resource into what statistics and quantitative research is really like.

By posting the above publicly perhaps I’ll be more likely to complete said tasks, i.e., be motivated to avoid having to explain how I didn’t manage to complete them.