March 15, 2013
Briefly
- Big Data: what companies know about you
- Global public health is hard: new randomised trial shows vitamin A supplementation in severely deficient kids is less effective than we thought: 10% mortality reduction, not 20-30%
- Network data: patterns of internet virulence
- Vaccine news from Australia: after introduction of the chickenpox vaccine, hospitalisations for chickenpox and shingles in that age cohort fell nearly 70%. All three cases requiring intensive care were in unvaccinated kids. Also, the “Australian Vaccination Network” has been ordered by Fair Trading NSW to change its name “on the grounds it does not convey the group’s anti-vaccination stance and could be misleading.”
- In 1994, the journal Diabetes Care published a paper on computing the area under a curve. The author had reinvented the trapezoidal rule, which dates back at least to Newton.
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 »