March 19, 2012
And now for something completely different
We don’t get a lot of opportunities to say nice things about statistics in the press, but the Herald has a good example today in a report on young Maori health. They report both the numbers of hospital admissions for Maori and non-Maori, and the relative risk. It wouldn’t hurt if they had linked to a definition of bronchiectasis, though.
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Some credit should probably go to the Otago Daily Times who originally published the story.
13 years ago
Indeed.
And probably to the University of Otago for supplying the numbers in a helpful form initially (but not much credit, since they should be expected to do that)
13 years ago