Tag: journals

10 sigma in the news again

Image via Wikipedia Risks are magnified after a historically volatile event like Thursday. The 11.3% intraday move was a 10 sigma event (if you treat the daily range of SPY as a normal Gaussian distribution). Per the excellent blog at http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/09/ten_sigma_numerics_and_finance.html, a 10 sigma event can be expected to occur  in 1x 10^23 days or […]

Structuring “Voice” for academic reseachers

My mentor sent me an intriguing link concerning an evolution in the standards, structure, presentation and style for online articles published in the CELL network of 2000 scientific journals. here are the essential new proposed standards, which would be a great way for us to prepare lesson prep materials for our college . I will […]

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