June 13, 2018
Briefly
- “Greece’s supreme court has rejected an appeal by the country’s former statistics chief to quash his conviction in 2017 on charges of violation of duty” (Financial Times, previous comment by American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society)
- The government of Puerto Rico has finally released official mortality statistics for the time since the hurricanes. Rafa Irizarry writes about them at Simply Statistics.
- The (UK) Academy of Medical Sciences has recommended a ‘nutrition label’ for medical science press releases, with indicators for peer-reviewed or not, whether it was in people or not, and what type of study if it was in people. And, according to the (UK) Science Media Centre, there was much rejoicing.
- Showing the distribution of income across different job categories, rather than just mean or median: Flowing Data
- Animation from NIWA of the NZ tides.
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 »