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)
- The American Statistical Association is running a competition for students on predicting the US election results
- 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 538: Is A 50-State Poll As Good As 50 State Polls?
- See evolution in action: antibiotic resistance bred in the lab, and filmed on an agar sheet
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 »