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Dan Violette announced as 2019 IEPEC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Dan Violette, PhD has been awarded the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award winner by the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) board. This biennial award is...
An Analytica advantage over MATLAB
I’m working on a model translation project for the California Energy Commission, going from MATLAB to Analytica. The transportation system model I’m working...
Plotting over a Google Map
Here is how to display your geographic data on a Google map background.
An optimal Valentine’s date
“You know, Valentine’s Day reminds me of the optimal stopping problem.” Not sure if this phrase was uttered elsewhere, but, this is the sort of water cooler conversations...
How to update y = m x + b with new data
Abstract: Bayesian linear regression made super easy and intuitive! You arrive in a new city for the first time, and you’ll …
What to do when your model results are ridiculous?
When an exhaustive scrutiny of the model code, the data and more sensitivity analyses don’t reveal why your model isn’t working, you must consider that perhaps it’s your intuition...
Testing hypotheses about causation
In 2002, I developed a statistical framework for testing whether your data provides statistically significant support for the hypothesis that A causes B. I published only one...
How the strange Cauchy distribution proved useful
On Tuesday I had an interesting exchange with Jorge Muro Arbulú, a professor in Peru, about the Cauchy distribution, which also called the Lorenzian distribution.
