http://edtags.org/ http://edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://edtags.org/bookmarks.php/aseldow/stats Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://statestats.appspot.com/?q=education This tool shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you see in the left column. It then compares this ranking with other ways of ranking states, like average income or population density, using Spearman's rank correlation. aseldow Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:06:16 +0000 stats education states http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/Psych-465-Spring-2003/PCA-tutorial.pdf This tutorial is designed to give the reader an understanding of Principal Components Analysis (PCA). PCA is a useful statistical technique that has found application in fields such as face recognition and image compression, and is a common technique for finding patterns in data of high dimension. 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