March 19, 2012

And now for something completely different

We don’t get a lot of opportunities to say nice things about statistics in the press, but the Herald has a good example today in a report on young Maori health.  They report both the numbers of hospital admissions for Maori and non-Maori, and the relative risk.   It wouldn’t hurt if they had linked to a definition of bronchiectasis, though.

avatar

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 »

Comments