July 24, 2020
Briefly
- Interpreting coronavirus numbers, from Pro Publica
- Pretty good Herald story with terrible headline: Covid-19 coronavirus: Superspreader – woman infects 71 people in 60 seconds in elevator: CDC study. The woman in the elevator wasn’t by any definition a ‘superspreader’. She infected one person. They don’t link to the CDC study.
- Nice explanation of PCR testing for the coronavirus, from U Otago
- Stats NZ are asking for input on their proposed standards for asking about gender and sex.
- Wikipedia is a good source of information on COViD-19. Mike Dickison talks to The Spinoff about why this is.
Non-representative sampling!
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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 »
Heres a new one for the Really file, as usual from prepress
“Detection dogs as a help in the detection of COVID-19 Can the dog alert on COVID-19 positive persons by sniffing axillary sweat samples ? Proof-of-concept study”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.132134v1
4 years ago