Michelle Paret

Product marketing manager

Michelle Paret is a product marketing manager at Minitab Inc., developer of statistical analysis/process improvement software. She loves the field of statistics and believexs that it gives us the ability to remove human bias and opinion to discern between what is truly important—and significant—from those things that are not. She loves statistics so much that she earned both her undergrad and graduate degrees on the subject.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 11:34
How Many Episodes Does It Take to Get Hooked on a TV Show? In search of correlation, causation, and commitment
Wed, 11/18/2015 - 11:34
I have two young children, and I work full-time, so my adult TV time is about as rare as finding a Kardashian-free tabloid. So I can’t commit to just any TV show. It better be a good one. I was therefore extremely excited when Netflix analyzed…
Guinness, t-Tests, and Proving a Pint Tastes Better in Ireland Researchers visited 71 pubs in 14 countries to produce the Guinness overall enjoyment score
Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:48
I couldn’t wait to get to the Guinness brewery after landing in Dublin. Yes, I was eager to taste a pint nearly fresh off the line, but I was also curious to see if there would be any indication that the brewery was home to arguably one of the most…
Understanding the Central Limit Theorem Tumbling dice and birthdays
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 05:00
Story update 8/27/2009: An error was spotted and corrected by author in paragraph starting with "The population mean for a six-sided die..." Mark Twain famously quipped that there were three ways to avoid telling the truth: lies, damned lies, and…