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If you have any questions about the downloads and how they are used for reference in the book, this is the place to post them. The downloads are meant to provide readers with examples that are already set up and, in many cases, can already use on practical problems....
Intro To IT Value
Yes, IT seems to stump a lot of people that try to measure its value. But the methods for measuring value don't have to be that difficult. First, my readers will know that measuring the value means reducing your prior uncertainty about the value. My readers also know...
Bayesian vs. Frequentist?
Under the Errata forum in a thread I called Second Print Run Corrections , one poster replied that he believed I incorrectly applied the term confidence interval in the book. I discuss several errors in that post in a reply in that thread. But it introduces another...
The Value of a Life?
Again, by email and on this site, someone has asked how to measure value when the purpose of a project, policy, investment, etc. is to save a human life. One poster mentioned this in a thread he called Ominus Measurement Problem under the New Measurement Challenge...
ROI without Profit?
A couple of people have asked me questions about how you measure value when it is for a not-for-profit or government agency. At least one of them posted the question under the New Measurement Challenge section of this forum and some sent similar questions by email. I...
Second Print Run Corrections
The errata and typos in the first print run that were mentioned in the first thread on this topic have all be addressed in the second print run. Fortunately, the book was selling well enough that the publisher had to go to a second print run much sooner than any of us...
Errata Statistics
Although my publisher assures me that some errors always make it through the proofing process, each one is still frustrating to the author - mostly because the author had the chance at some point to catch almost every one of the errors. My wife teaches math at a local...
Welcome
Welcome to the consolidated forum for How to Measure Anything and The Failure of Risk Management. If you would like to make comments on either book, ask questions about examples, get philosophical about the nature of measurement and risk, or challenge us with an...
