May 23, 2014

Distrust the center

Automated location information can be very useful, but if the ‘location’ is an area and the automated result is a single point, it’s easy to get misled.

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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 »