June 8, 2022
Briefly
- The “Causality, Applications, and Research in Education and Statistics” lab at Harvard has a blog. A bit more technical than StatsChat.
- There are many contexts where absolute risk differences are more relevant than relative risks, but as Hilda Bastian explains, not all.
- Making data ‘visual’isation more accessible for blind and low vision users.
- Good graphics-based electoral data analysis from the West Island
- “In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia” and why it’s about a moth
- Representing images from the Hubble telescope with sound?
- Science education in an age of misinformation
- The average gun in the US has a relatively low chance of killing someone, but the average person has a relatively high chance of being killed. Which is the most useful denominator?
- Science editing handbook from the Knight School of Journalism at MIT
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 »