September 10, 2016

Briefly

  • From Vox: Amazon is a giant purveyor of medical quackery
  • From Joel Eastwood on Twitter: different approaches to balancing geographic accuracy and number of voters in maps of the US (the ‘one cow, one vote’ problem, as I like to call it)
  • From Matt Levine at Bloomberg View: “Measurement is sort of an evil genie: It grants your wishes, but it takes them just a bit too literally. “
  • From 538Is A 50-State Poll As Good As 50 State Polls?
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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 »