Essential Statistics in Business and Economics (+ Audio CD)

Seibel: YouБЂ™ve mostly worked in research and it seems youБЂ™ve had a lot of latitude to work on what you like, but did it change when it become a job? Did it take any of the fun out of it? Thompson: No. ItБЂ™s always been fun, and mostly because I just selected what I wanted to do. And even when it was a job, back in college, there were tons and tons of jobs available. It seemed to me that there were tons of people who were doing something, whatever it is, and they needed some little programming task done on the side to aid them. So they were perfect for me. They were little tiny jobs that I could get into, get in and out in days and pick and choose which one I wanted to take. I think my first one was a humanities professor cataloging HomerБЂ™s work. And he had The Iliad and The Odyssey on cards. He wanted word frequencies and countsБЂ”essentially statistical analysis of these two works. And that was fun. It was text processing, which just wasnБЂ™t done by computers in those days. So that was my first odd job ...»