January 18, 2014
Briefly
Outsourcing edition
- “Does your name mean you are a good husband or wife?” (Telegraph) Um, no? (Time)
- What scientific idea is ready for retirement? (edge.org) Statistics, apparently. (Jeff Leek)
- Brain training helped older adults stay sharp for years: study (Reuters and their customers). Not so much, actually. (Hilda Bastian)
and for dessert, another not-entirely-serious data visualisation rant from eager pies.
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 »