March 22, 2012
Bogus polls: a picture
From a talk I’m giving tomorrow to the Canterbury Mathematical Association:
“Bogus polls look a bit like real surveys on the outside, but don’t have any of the inner machinery that you need to make them work.”
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 »