July 3, 2016
Briefly
- The ‘Questions and Answers’ link for the NZ Garden Bird Survey is a great example of how to think about experimental design and sources of variation
- How to win an election: how UK political parties’ expenditure varied by electorate in the last election, from the Monkey Cage blog at Washington Post, and an interesting discussion by Alex Harrowell at Yorkshire Ranter.
- The ozone hole (remember the ozone hole?) is finally starting to go away — visualisations from the LA Times. At least we got the easy one right.
- David Spiegelhalter explains why he isn’t worried about a higher rate of brain tumours in more-educated people.
- Nate Silver’s forecasts for the US election have started
- fMRI analyses (those pretty brain-wave pictures) seem to have a rather higher rate of false positives than people though (see also, emotional reactions in dead salmon)
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 »