Bergson revisited: interview with François Azouvi

Re-interview, Revisited

The reinterview method is the usual technique for estimating the response variance and the response bias. It is assumed that the respondent does not remember or is not influenced by the original response. The gross discrepancy rate (GDR) is the ratio of the sum of the two types of discrepancies to the total number of respondents in a yes/no type of question. The response variance is half of the...

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

The Socratic Bergson

19 April 2013 − − François

Assignment 3 François Séguin

Question 1 First, we have that λ − λ − 2 = (λ + 1)(λ − 2). Therefore, it is true that the eigenvalues of the corresponding adjacency matrix come in pairs of additive inverse. However, notice that ± √ −1 are eigenvalues, and therefore the associated matrix cannot be symmetric (there would only be real eigenvalues). We conclude that no undirected graph can have the above characteristic polynomial...