[This book is written by Annette J. Dobson, a Biostatistics Professor at University of Queensland(Brisbane). I had come across this book way back in May 2010 and had worked through out the book. Here is what I wrote about it back then. While trying to understand local likelihood modeling, I realized that I had forgotten some basic principles relating to diagnostics and model evaluation for GLM. Sometimes I wonder what makes things stick.

Via LA Times : The high-speed trading arms race being waged on Wall Street has finally claimed its first major casualty. Knight Capital Group, a brokerage that handles nearly 11% of all stock trading in U.S. companies, is in danger of collapsing after a software glitch triggered millions of unintended orders. The New Jersey firm lost $440 million in less than an hour — nearly four times the company’s profit last year.

At Harlem Village Academies (a network of public charter schools in US), Every student (fifth graders) reads fifty books a year! Isn’t it amazing ? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ5EgkDq5p4?rel=0]

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

The book begins with a single mother murdering her ex-husband. To create the perfect alibi and lead every police investigation in to a dead-end, her neighbor, a quiet high school math teacher, offers to help her. The math teacher almost succeeds in doing so, and nobody figures out the real story behind the murder except, a physics professor, whom the detectives seek help from. The most engrossing thing about this book is that you are given the murder, i.