November 26, 2013

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  • UK government “Behavioural Insights Team” wins a government innovation award for using randomisation to test more effective tax reminder letters.
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  • ‘Crowdsourcing‘ gives fast, detailed interpretation of satellite images from Philippines, to provide information about typhoon damage.
  • XKCD

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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 »