History of Maths / Historia de las matemáticas

I have come across many interestig books, links and videos on the History of Maths. For an non mathematician, this is an interesting way to look furhter into Maths, and hopefully, learn a bit more of it.

This is a video by Terry Jones (a former Monty Python) with an hilarious look into the development of Maths:

Vídeo by Terry Jones, part 1

Video by Terry Jones, part 2

And then, you have the more serious tone in the Marcus du Sautoy doccumentary:
The Language of the Universe, part 1


This is another BBC doccumentary (1986) on the development of Calculus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObPg3ki9GOI

Pranav Mistry, inventor

Please have a look at this 15 minute TED video in which Pranav Mistry, a graduate from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) at Mumbai, and MIT, shares his amazing innovations in the field of interface between humans and computers. A peep into the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqV3mpok22w



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Echen una mirada a este vídeo de TED de 15 minutos de duración en el que Pranav Mistry, un licenciado del IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) de Bombay, y el MIT, comparte asombrosas innovaciones en el campo de la interconexión entre humanos y ordenadores. Un vistazo al futuro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqV3mpok22w

Random or fixed effects?/ Efectos fijos o efectos aleatorios?

One of the decisions to be taken when performing a systematic review is whether to choose a random or fixed effects model. Very briefly, a fixed effects model is chosen if the studies in the metaanalisys are homogeneous, and random effects model is preferred otherwise. This video illustrates the question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laviboNorXk

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Una de las decisiones que hay que tomar cuando se lleva a cabo una revisión sistemática es si se debe escoger un modelo de efectos fijos o de efectos aleatorios. De manera muy resumida, se escogen efectos fijos si los estudios incluidos en el metaanálisis son homogéneos, y efectos aleatorios en caso contrario. Este vídeo ilustra la cuestión.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laviboNorXk

Webinar on Revman (Cochrane) / Webinario sobre Revman (Cochrane)

Revman is the free program by the Cochrane Collaboration to perform systematic reviews. This is a 2012 Youtube tutorial from the Canadian Cochrane Network, by John MacDonald.

Revman tutorial (click here)

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Revman es el programa gratuito de la Cochrane Collaboration para la realización de revisiones sistemáticas. Este es un vídeo tutorial de Youtube, de la Canadian Cochrane Network, por John MacDonald.

Revman tutorial (click here)

Data Transparency

An interesting link shared by Prof. Amanda Burls (University of Oxford), to a youtube vídeo on tge Workshop on Clinical Trial Data and Transparency, from the European Medicines Agency.
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Interesante enlace compartido por la profesora Amanda Burls (University of Oxford), de un vídeo de youtube sobre el Taller sobre Datos y Transparencia de Ensayos Clínicos, de la Agencia Europea de Medicinas.

More on Bayesian inference and the Bayes Theorem/ Más sobre Inferencia Bayesiana y el teorema de Bayes

 Sharon Bertsch McGrayne makes a lovely presentation (click here) on Reverend Thomas Bayes and his theorem at the The Singularity Summit held in New York in 2011.

Allen Downey features a lesson on Bayesian Inference made as simple as possible. This is his blog.

The MIT offers a class on Bayesian inference here. The second part is offered here.

This is the article on Bayes´ Theorem at the Stanford Enciclopaedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
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GAPMINDER

GAPMINDER is a beautiful tool for statistical data display, created by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling. The latter is a professor at the Karolinska Instutet, and we have had some very interesting presentations by him in previous threads of the blog.

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 GAPMINDERes una bella herramienta para la representación de datos estadísticos, creada por Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund y Hans Rosling.
Este último es porfesor del Karolinska Instutet y ya hemos visto algún vídeo muy interesante realizado por él en entradas previas del blog.