February 20, 2012

Three new entries in our Stat of the Summer competition

There’s still time to add your nominations for the Stat of the Summer competition, and here’s the most recent three nominations:

Child abuse statistics

Simon Moyes nominated a statistic from the Oamaru Mail on child abuse statistics.

Mondayising holidays

Simon also nominated the $400 million figure quoted in the NZ Herald.

Displaced / Causation

Sakshi Kalani nominated the NZ Herald for its article on workforce statistics:

Old people have displaced more than 40,000 teenagers from jobs in the past five years as more choose to stay on in the workforce and employers shun youth for experience.

Please add your nominations too!

Comments

  • avatar
    Brett Stansfield

    Could anyone direct me to a good website that shows the various formulae for using power analysis to estimate appropriate sample size? I know there are a plethora of methods out there but I’m not sure where to go to find them

    12 years ago

  • avatar
    Thomas Lumley

    It depends a lot on what analysis you want to do.

    Two fairly general websites are OpenEpi from Emory University and Russ Lenth’s power website from the University of Iowa.

    If you aren’t sure which analysis to use, you may want to get advice from a statistical consultant.

    12 years ago