October 10, 2014
Briefly
- ‘The Age of Megacities’: maps from ESRI showing the growth of some of the world’s biggest cities
- Kitties in the CPI: the new StatsNZ CPI basket of goods – Stuff, Herald, StatsNZ press release, Stats NZ explanation of CPI
- Something strange happened to this month’s unemployment data in Australia: Guardian, ABC News, interview with Rob Hyndman (who knows from time series)
- “Ferguson’s 3,287 new registrants (in two months) is more than recorded by any township in St. Louis County in any midterm election since 2002.” Or not. A number that seems really extreme may just be wrong.
- When there’s a lot of variation, it can be a mistake to make statements about “typical” attitudes: Andrew Gelman
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 »