December 26, 2015
For the day after Christmas
- Violin plots are a useful way to show the whole distribution of a large set of data, or dot plots for a small set
- There’s a new movie out about at the effect of repeated minor brain injuries in US football; the same problem occurs in other sports.
- “The shipping container is one of those rare devices, like the light bulb or the telephone, that can be traced to a single inventor” — from a review, now ten years old, of an fascinating book about container shipping. Yes, I do know how that sentence sounds.
- Will the new Stars Wars movie beat the original one in (real) ticket income? Will it go further and beat Gone With The Wind?
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 »