September 15, 2013
Briefly
- ChCh Press has a sensible story explaining that apparent clustering of murders is probably just chance variation
- Just when you thought I was getting tired of pie charts, here’s a beauty from a company that does exhibits for court trials
To be fair, the purpose of the chart probably is just to look ugly and complicated, not to convey quantitative information
- A fascinating statistic: 1/3 of emergency calls (111 number) are due to pocket dialing from mobile phones. Since nearly 50% are real, that means Kiwi butts are responsible for twice as many calls as pranks and cranks.
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 »