May 25, 2016

Life expectancy quiz

Life expectancy at birth for men in NZ is about 77 years, but life expectancy is more complicated than it sounds

 

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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 »

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    Thomas Lumley

    Pretty sure this is evidence our readership is weird. In a good way.

    9 years ago

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      James Green

      Some of us may have explicitly investigated this when passing 77/2 …

      9 years ago