March 30, 2015

Briefly

  • Two data-related notes about the Northland by-election: the polls were amazingly accurate given how hard by-elections are to predict, and the Electoral Commission did a wonderful job in getting the vote counted and reported fast.
  • The Medical Council of New Zealand has released a Discussion Paper on the value of performance and outcome data.
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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 »