July 1, 2014

Graph of the week

From Deadspin. No further comment needed.

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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 »

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    I recently developed a model for colleagues, where the distribution for the data was poisson and the time-dependent rate is a sum of an unknown number of asymmetric bi-exponential components.

    10 years ago

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      Thomas Lumley

      Could be interesting. It looks like you wouldn’t do too badly by treating the rise on those spikes as infinitely fast, at this time resolution. I wonder what time resolution Twitter makes available.

      10 years ago