NNN Columns

Periodically, the NNN website will feature columns on quantitative issues written by members of the organization. Below you will find a listing of the columns that have been published here to date.

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Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College

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Ratiocination

Dr. Eric Gaze, Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program, Bowdoin College

A column devoted to ratios in all their guises: indices, coefficients, percentages, rates, scales, conversions, etc. Ratios are comparisons between the relative size of two quantities, a simple idea which – surprisingly – underlies much of the way we use numbers to communicate.

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• Bonds for the Duration? - 2/14/11
  
• Good PR for the Housing Market - 7/7/10
• Hubble's Dark Constant - 2/5/10
• Fertile Myrtle and the Most Important Statistic...In the World! - 9/15/09
• Dividend Yielding PE Ratios - 6/30/09
• The Full Monty... in Proportion - 1/16/09
• Planck's Constant: Motion and Rest - 10/1/08
• Social Security and the "Celtic Tiger" - 8/14/08