October 16, 2013
Briefly
- (Lots) more on the Nobel Prize for Econ, by Dan Davies “So, the Fama/Shiller/Hansen prize, or as the vast majority of comment has it, the prize for “Fama, Shiller and that other guy”. What does it say about the state of economics? I think it encapsulates everything good and bad about the subject.”
- The Herald is treating its clicky webpage poll as headline news again. We’ve seen how inaccurate these polls can be.
- At bit.ly, a real-time map of click-throughs to various media sources (US only, sadly)
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 »