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Evolving Taxonomy of Major Risks

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:02:59 AM, by Unknown. "On page 47 of HTFRM Mr. Hubbard refers to the website for viewing an evolving taxonomy of major risks. I am having trouble locating it, am I missing...

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What to say when they ask, “Why not 100% CI?”

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:20:46 AM, by Dreichel. "Hello, This is my first post on your board. I am excited to actually be able to pose this to the author (or to others who want to chime in). First some...

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Lens Model: Negative Value

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:20:07 PM, by sujoymitra17. "While using Lens Model (multiple regression), I am getting negative scores for a few parameters and positive scores for few others. I am computing the...

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How do you backtest a probability estimate?

A question asked by a subscriber: I am sympathetic to the concept of using a Monte Carlo approach, perhaps using a cascaded series of Monte Carlo models to model inputs, to produce an estimated probability distribution. This seems like a more reasonable approach to...

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First Print Errata

Welcome to the Errata thread in the book discussion of the How to Measure Anything Forum. An author goes through a lot of check with the publisher but some errors manage to get through. Some my fault, some caused by the typesetter or publisher not making previous...

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Variation of Recatch Example

Originally posted to http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, July 13, 2009 2:13:07 PM. "I would love to see an example following upon the idea of estimating the population of all prospective clients which uses similar sampling method as recatching...

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Random Power Law Generator Example?

Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, June 22, 2009 4:33:03 AM. "Greetings! ON the page 187 there is a claim that the author has generated an example of random power law generator, but i cant find it from the examples. Can someone...

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