International Year of Statistics: WSJ
As you will soon get tired of hearing around here, it’s the International Year of Statistics.
The Wall Street Journal has a story on what sorts of changes in reporting we might like to see this year. These will be familiar to StatsChat readers: routine reporting of uncertainty, the need for denominators and other context, an understanding of regression to the mean, and a reduced in coincidences that are only superficially unlikely.
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 »