September 27, 2012

Something beginning with ‘A’?

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The Herald website front page asks

New Zealand has been allocated 2000 of the 10,000 places available for the 2015 dawn service at Gallipoli – guess which country gets the rest?

The guess isn’t that hard, and the allocation seems pretty fair to NZ.  Australia gets 4 times as many places. It has 4.9 times as many people now, had 5.9 times as many serving in the campaign, and 3.7 2.2 times as many died.

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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 »

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    Martin Kealey

    Herald says “More than 2700 New Zealanders and 8000 Australians died”, which doesn’t tally with “3.7 times as many died”.

    (I suspect «10000/2700 = 3.7» might come into it somewhere.)

    12 years ago