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- Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:32 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Is Hocus FIREd?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 143438
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts--for support rather than illumination. Because of this, intercst has zero credibility as an engineer. He routinely distorts all facts to force-fit them into false conclusions. You mean, like throwing out a third of his data series so he can get a ...
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:56 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Is Hocus FIREd?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 143438
- Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:52 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Congratulations
- Replies: 63
- Views: 83134
- Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:14 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: I have retired
- Replies: 44
- Views: 60610
- Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:14 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Censorship
- Replies: 55
- Views: 77450
- Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:22 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Millionaire "Code"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13598
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:11 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: My new website is up...sorta
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24400
PainInTheAS wrote:Try this link, although if I'm reading it correctly, platykurtic connotes fatter than normal tails, leptokurtic the opposite.
In the quote above, the bolded word should be flatter.
Made the rest of the post rather incoherent...
PITA
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:45 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: My new website is up...sorta
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24400
Hi Kramer, the distribution is leptokurtic , which means it has big tails. (Sorry for big word -- I did have to look it up). I use Gurunet to lookup words I am unsure about or plain don't know, right clicking the word. Free. Came up blank. Tried dictionary.com and it came up blank also! :lol: Try t...
- Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:48 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I hate to have another swr thread
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20472
- Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:45 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31368
- Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:55 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31368
Numbers here are a bit hard to read. Age listed in 3 colums followed by the years left to live. A US male is not projected to live past 95 until age 92. At age 62 a US male is projected to live to 79! Cut-Throat, This seem like a misapplication of life-expectancy figures. If you are an insurance co...
- Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:02 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31368
Also, I have also seen many people in their 80's - That spending money is not too fun after that age. - Have you considered that? I don't intend to put words in therealchips' mouth, but depending on how dearly you wish to cling to life, and the state of your health at an advanced age, a big pile co...
- Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:24 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Expert Agrees to Discuss SWRs on NFB Board!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30497
Re: Expert Agrees to Discuss SWRs on NFB Board!
I told Easterling that our process for the "A Night With..." event would be to formulate a question or two in advance that we intend to be the focal point of the one-hour or two-hour discussion-board event. We will give him the question or questions in advance and ask that he start the ev...
- Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:24 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: No! It isn't that simple.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5703
Re: No! It isn't that simple.
JWR1945, I at once agree and disagree with you. I basically agree with the technical merit of your arguments, but I can't help wondering how much practical difference it makes to someone embarking on their SWR calculation. No! It isn't that simple. The first difference in the two answers has to do w...