paranoid, worried, stressed

[baratron]

I'm feeling a bit paranoid that no one's actually reading my journal. Posted a few things recently (particularly to my Thesis subgroup) that I wanted comments on, and none have been forthcoming. So I'm worried that no one actually likes me but you're all too nice to say so.

In other news I desperately need a statistician, so if you know one, please point them in my direction. Failing that, a physicist who's done a lot of work on self-similarity who's familiar with the Hurst exponent, rescaled range analysis and the aggregated variance technique / variance-time plots. I've posted a plea to sci.stat.edu and consult and sci.fractals, but no bites yet. Depending on the outcome of the thing I'm wibbling about, I might have to redo approximately 50% of the results in my thesis. At this stage, that will take about 2 days (seeing as I now know exactly what I'm doing), but I'd like to know as soon as possible.

Comments

[mjl]

um... yeah... hi. I am actually reading your journal (and probably others are too)... I hadn't read your thesis-related entry of yesterday until just now though. I should comment more, but I don't really have anything constructive to say about the thesis stuff, or anything to say about your weird dream. Just posting "that sucks, *hugs*" seems a bit lame.

Don't know any statisticians... and I doubt the small chunks of A-level stats that I can remember would be of any use...

*hugs*

[kiya]

Just posting "that sucks, *hugs*" seems a bit lame.

Heh. Somewhere in my /info is the sentence: I just can't figure out how to say anything without feeling that I'm sounding like a complete moron.

So, yeah, that.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

I'm reading your journal. I may not say much - I rarely do on LJ, in general, unless something comes up that triggers a specific response that I want to share. But I do read what you write.

If you wanted specific comments, did you actually say so explicitly? I'm not remembering the posts (I have no idea if I'm in the group you refer to) but I find that I get a lot more comments if I ask explicit questions than if I say something like "I'm confused about X" or "I've been wondering about X" or some such.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I don't always read it, it depends.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Simon says that he used to play a statistician on TV at university, so if you can't find anyone else who's less out of practice you can ask him...

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

Am reading, but prefer commenting with useful things rather than platitudes and struggling.. keep posting, I still care :)

[lovingboth]

Have you tried asking the maths department?

[emperor]

/me is reading, but I've never been the most comment-ful person in the world.

Is the stats sufficiently evil that a textbook won't help?

[bfo.livejournal.com]

I am still reading your journal, but unfortunately no use at stats.

[gerwinium.livejournal.com]

Humm... I read but deny all knowledge of statistics.

[barty.livejournal.com]

I read your journal. I'm afraid I can't help you with your statistics problem.

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

The limits of my statistics exposure were one class during grad school (or was it undergrad?) - I think I got okay grades, but other than remembering a fascinating discussion about the Monty Hall problem, and the counterintuitive nature of the most favorable choice, a lot of it's long gone...

[nitoda]

Sorry, only just reading this - but if not too late, Toni is a stats whizz and can be contacted on email or via my email ... HUGS!

[meirion.livejournal.com]

i'm afraid that whatever statistics i once knew is a) mostly lost in the murky depths of time; and b) not in the right area.

am reading, but apart from *hugs* often have little to say. if i don't have actual advice to offer i tend not to comment on things. this may change when i'm less inordinately stressed myself :-)

-m-

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I occasionally read your entries, and I'm a complete stranger! (randomly browsing -- I'm a friend of fluffymormegil's). I live with purplepiano, who is a postdoc statistician at Imperial college and could therefore possibly be helpful. :)