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November 10, 2005
I'm foxy
One of my favorite words of all time is "heteroskedasticity". I especially like that it is an eight-syllable word that means "non-constant variance", which has only six syllables.
Next week I'll be in Phoenix for some testing for work and this means I'm finally getting to play around in Enterprise Miner. Just clap your hands and say yeah.
I'm not going to get any comments for this post, am I.
Posted by Missy
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Yes
Posted by: gdd at November 11, 2005 10:29 AM
I've just been at a bunch of seminars where we've had lots of people (myself including) talking about Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity.
It rules.
Posted by: Dan at November 11, 2005 11:05 AM
And SAS smells.
Posted by: Dan at November 11, 2005 11:06 AM
No way. Enterprise Guide & Miner are the Second Coming.
Posted by: Missy at November 11, 2005 01:40 PM
And, as much fun as it is to say "heteroskedasticity", GARCH sounds pretty funny as well. (For those playing along, that's the abbreviation for the mouthful that Dan mentioned.)
I miss time series.
Posted by: Missy at November 11, 2005 02:41 PM
Enterprise Guide & Miner either sounds like terrible things that are marketed as "solutions", or some new crappy Star Trek series. (matlab r00lz!!!)
And as for GARCH, I may only know a little about it, but I do love being able to say the full sentence really quickly.
Posted by: Dan at November 11, 2005 06:57 PM
Reminds me of the Seinfeld joke: "Why is abbreviated such a long word?"
Off-topic, have you seen Ballets Russes yet? I don't remember reading about it here, but I caught it tonight at the Film Forum and it's really amazing. I highly recommend it, even to non-dance people.
Posted by: Kevin at November 12, 2005 03:14 AM
I have not--actually, I haven't been to the movies in a few weeks, sadly. Not sure how to account for that. Perhaps I can catch it later today...
Posted by: Missy at November 12, 2005 08:03 AM
If for any reason you miss BALLETS RUSSES, let me know. I can hook you up with a tape.
Posted by: Noel Murray at November 13, 2005 09:35 PM
Noel, that would be wonderful. As it turns out, I DID miss it and I'm not sure if this is the last week. I don't get back until the early hours of Saturday morning...
Posted by: Missy at November 13, 2005 09:58 PM