User talk:Bassis

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

Context!

 * Starting from a sample $$\mathbf x=\{x_1,\ldots,x_m\}$$ 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)

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