February 19, 2012

Dog bites man

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The NZ Herald is reporting that more people died in NZ last year than in any previous year. Since

  • the population is expanding
  • the average age of the population is increasing

we’d expect record numbers of deaths to be the rule rather than the exception.  And that’s what Statistics New Zealand shows us:

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »