September 26, 2014

Thomas Lumley at random

This from the latest Thomas Lumley Listener column: “Statistics uses both real and theoretical randomness for a lot of things, from selecting phone numbers in polling and allocating treatments in clinical trials, to proving that a set of mathematical assumptions does or doesn’t let you distinguish correlation from causation.

“So what do we think “random” really means?”

Read the column here.

 

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Atakohu Middleton is an Auckland journalist with a keen interest in the way the media uses/abuses data. She happens to be married to a statistician. See all posts by Atakohu Middleton »