September 29, 2014

Stat of the Week Competition Discussion: September 27 – October 3 2014

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If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

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Rachel Cunliffe is the co-director of CensusAtSchool and currently consults for the Department of Statistics. Her interests include statistical literacy, social media and blogging. See all posts by Rachel Cunliffe »

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    Thomas Lumley

    On the ‘30% die of cardiovascular disease each year’, I think the interpretation is “Each year, of those who die, 30% die of cardiovascular disease”

    That’s true: the division is very roughly 1/3 cardiovascular, 1/3 cancer, 1/3 everything else. In 2011, there were 10542 deaths from causes in ICD10 chapter I: “Diseases of the circulatory system”, and 30289 total deaths.

    That’s 30% of deaths, but 0.25% of New Zealanders.

    10 years ago