December 4, 2018

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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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    Steve Curtis

    The One Roof real estate price interactive, while using median price for each city, also uses %.
    So that Wellington and Whangarei could seem to be similar at 2.6% and 2.3% increases respectively.
    The actual increase on mean is about $19K in Wellington and $8K in Whangarei. Its the old problem of comparing %.

    6 years ago