September 8, 2014
Briefly
- Interesting maps: a Moral Topography of Portland “The [1913] report found, specified per type of dwelling, only 22 of 80 apartments, merely 5 out of 59 hotels and no more than 71 out of 408 rooming and lodging houses to be ‘moral’.” If you cynically expected that “immoral” didn’t refer to racial discrimination, rent-gouging, unhygienic conditions, or lack of fire escapes, you were right. (via consumerist.com)
- An interactive display of US lifetime earnings for various groups by education and gender. The underlying data are good, but there’s inevitably an assumption that the correlations with education are broadly a result of education (including social status and networking effects) rather than selection for existing differences.
- The Royal Statistical Society is launching a pro bono statistics scheme, in collaboration with the existing Statistics Without Borders and Datakind UK
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 »