April 18, 2014
Briefly
- How Americans Die: infographics can actually be informative (via Rob Isaac)
- Let’s Experiment More: randomised experiments outside medicine
- UK Pensions Minister wants to send pensioners an estimate of when they will die, to improve their financial planning. I’m sure there’s no way this could go wrong.
- Ezra Klein interviews Mark Kleiman on cannabis legalisation.
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 »