User talk:Bassis

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Bassis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Gary King (talk) 18:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey there!

Hey, thanks for all your fantastic maths articles! You might want to head over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics and get some extra eyes on the article to neaten it up. Ironholds (talk) 14:30, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Context!

Starting from a sample

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observed from a...

That is an INCREDIBLY bad way to start a Wikipedia article. The lay reader needs to be told at the beginning that statistics is what the article is about, and even for one like myself who has a Ph.D. in statistics, the beginning is horribly abrupt. It is inappropriate to write here in a way that might be appropriate in a statistics journal. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

some improvements

Thanks for your suggestions and appreciation of our articles. Actually we have revisited a couple of pages (Twisting Properties and Bootstrapping Populations) hoping to having improved in clearness. We will update also the remaining contributions as soon as possible