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  • 1.  Stu Hunter's Westinghouse tapes

    Posted 09-10-2018 16:21
    Once upon a time, I watched the 10 (?) tapes Stu Hunter did for Westinghouse Learning and worked through the workbooks that came with the course.  Do they exist anymore?

    Stu Hunter: Recollections of Westinghouse Programs offers the best summary I think I've found of their current state, but I've not found anything about ASA's involvement or about availability of the CDs he describes. (I do note that Hunter mentions 32 sessions in the video, while I recall 10 sessions--one per book.)

    Does anyone know where they can be gotten?  It's all the better if they are available for free on YouTube or the like.  Tapes in particular would do me no good.

    As I recall, they covered pretty much standard, introductory frequentist statistics.  Does anyone know of another such series that approaches the material from more of a Bayesian perspective?

    Thanks,

    Bill


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    Bill Harris
    Data & Analytics Consultant
    Snohomish County PUD
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  • 2.  RE: Stu Hunter's Westinghouse tapes

    Posted 09-10-2018 16:35
    For those who don't have time to listen to Hunter's short video, I should have mentioned that he alludes to a set of CDs he later prepared from the tapes and to someone from the ASA who seems to have gotten a copy of them.  I'm a bit hopeful that they exist somewhere on https://amstat.org/, although I haven't yet found them.

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    Bill Harris
    Data & Analytics Consultant
    Snohomish County PUD
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  • 3.  RE: Stu Hunter's Westinghouse tapes

    Posted 09-11-2018 20:46
    Bill,

    This doesn't seem to be exactly what you're looking for, but might be
    close.?? It's a series of 16 Youtube videos of Stu Hunter teaching in
    1966.?? They pair up into 8 28-minute lectures and were posted by the
    people at JMP/SAS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL335F9F2DE78A358B

    ???????? Regards,

    ?????????????????? Dave

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    Statistics means never having to say you're certain.


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  • 4.  RE: Stu Hunter's Westinghouse tapes

    Posted 09-12-2018 11:31
    Dave,

    I received another link to that content in a private email, too.  Thanks to both of you. 

    That's a great series I'd like to find the time to view in its entirety someday, but, unless I missed something, it's focused on DOE.  What I'm looking for is the particular series he mentioned in the video I linked to that was focused on teaching managers ways they could make sense of data--a sort of "pocket statistics" course, if you will--statistical approaches you can carry around in your pocket to answer questions such as "Is this set of numbers really better (bigger) than that set of numbers?" when faced with production data, for example.  I have not yet found it.  I think I once found the taped version (U-matic?  VHS?) at the University of Kentucky listed on WorldCat, but I don't see it anymore.

    Kudos to the folks at JMP/SAS for finding and posting his DOE videos!

    Bill

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    Bill Harris
    Data & Analytics Consultant
    Snohomish County PUD
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