January 29, 2015
Briefly
- Studies showing that bilingualism is good for the brain are more likely to get published, (on NPR)
- “When 2000 people take aspirin for one year, one heart attack is prevented.” A story on absolute risk and number-needed-to-treat, at the NY Times Upshot blog. They introduce this as related to personalised medicine, but it’s really not.
- “Five of the 21 models in the [Short Range Ensemble Forecast] had less than 10 inches of snow falling. Nine of the 21 predicted a foot or less.” 538 on the Not-So-Great New York Blizzard of 2015. Also, the National Weather Service now has probabilistic snowfall maps based on this set of models.
- A couple of new interactive maps from Harkanwal Singh at the Herald: changes in median rent and in commuting patterns
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 »