July 4, 2012

Sincerest form of flattery

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Thanks to the Google, while tracking down a specific phrase from a StatsChat post I found another site with a remarkably similar dialogue.  The main change is that the participants have been given names, implying a previously unreported interest in 21st century New Zealand accident statistics by the famous Russian probabilist Andrey Markov (who died in 1922).

[if the site goes offline, I have a screenshot]

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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 »