October 9, 2015
Briefly
- A 2010 post complaining about a continuing problem: when the media report on scientific papers that the journals haven’t yet made available to scientists.
- Which bar is closest to a whole number in length?
That’s right, the smallest one is exactly 1.0 and the others are all slightly larger than a whole number. Inspired by one of Kieran Healy’s examples - Linguistic statistics: G K Chesterton almost never used feminine pronouns in his novels.
- The famous London Underground map, labelled with rents in the neighbourhood of each station. Would be interesting to see an Auckland map using trains and major bus routes. (via Flowing Data)
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 »