Chiek Er

“A relevant model here is the random effects ANOVA model.1 Denoting by Yij the outcome value observed for micro-unit i within macro-unit j, this model can be expressed as where μ is the population grand mean, Uj is the specific effect of macro-unit j, and Rij is the residual effect for micro-unit i within this macro-unit. In other words, macro–unit j has the ‘true mean’ μ + Uj, and each measurement of a micro-unit within this macro-unit deviates from this true mean by some value Rij. Units differ randomly from one another, which is reflected in the fact that Uj is a random variable and the name ‘random effects model’. Some units have a high true mean, corresponding to a high value of Uj, others”
― Tom A.B. Snijders, Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling

“Her face became tougher and leaner, the face Cara-vaggio would meet later. She was thin, mostly from tiredness. She was always hungry and found it a furious exhaustion to feed a patient who couldn’t eat or didn’t want to, watching the bread crumble away, the soup cool, which she desired to swallow fast. She wanted nothing exotic, just bread, meat.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Who would kill the one person who made life worth living?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Mercy

“Despite himself, Webster was drawn to the people. “The Germans I have seen so far have impressed me as clean, efficient, law-abiding people,” he wrote his parents on April 14. They were churchgoers. “In Germany everybody goes out and works and, unlike the French, who do not seem inclined to lift a finger to help themselves, the Germans fill up the trenches soldiers have dug in their fields. They are cleaner, more progressive, and more ambitious than either the English or the French.”1”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest