April 5, 2019
Briefly
- Newshub headline: Massive earthquake, tsunami in New Zealand inevitable in our lifetime – experts. In the story “We know a large earthquake and tsunami is something we will face in our lifetime, or that of our children and grandchildren.”
- From Stuff. Understatement watch: “Census general manager Kathy Connolly said 60 court cases were being lodged in relation to people not completing the census. That was not everyone who failed to fill out the census”
- The New York Times has an analysis of online links between white extremist terrorists.
- NZ statistician Peter Ellis has moved to Melbourne and is now predicting AFL results
- CNBC story about artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system.
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 »