dogs and wolves postscript: Truth Stronger Than Fiction?

(travelling home on the tram after writing previous post, in the amazing State Library of Victoria.

thinking about dogs and wolves, from the French, Entre Chien et Loup, the hour between dog and wolf.  Dusk or twilight, or metaphorically the time between the familiar and the much less familiar….

out of the corner of my eye I noticed a young couple playing with a puppy, in one of their coat pockets.

but on closer inspection, that was no puppy, dog, or even a little wolf.

It was a *ferret*.   (little weasel, polecat creature, not the sort of thing you’d want in a pocket, or on a crowded conveyance)

now what’s the probability of That?

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Author: Dr Dean McKenzie

I hold a BA(Honours) in Psychology from Deakin University, and much more recently, a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology (Classification & Regression Trees) from Monash University (2009) I have many years experience applying classical (e.g. ANOVA), contemporary (e.g. quantile regression) and data mining (e.g. trees, bagging, boosting, random forests) to psychological, medical and health data using Stata, IBM SPSS, Salford CART and open source Weka, as well as in statistical consulting, and advising people of many different levels of stats experience