January 15, 2015
Briefly
- Just one of the unfortunate graphic elements in an infographic dissected at JunkCharts
- The Herald had a story (from the Washington Post) on being married increasing happiness. Frances Woolley explains that ‘happiness’ isn’t really what they measured.
- Eric Crampton (and Tim Harford) on replacing ‘value of a statistical life’ with ‘microlife’ or ‘micromort‘. That is, rather than saying (as the NZTA does) that preventing a death is worth $4.2 million, say that reducing the risk of a death by one in a million is worth $4.20 per exposed person.
- “it’s the shiver of noticing” A poem on coincidences at the New Yorker, which (incidentally) gets the statistical point exactly right. (via Harkanwal Singh)
- [update] “I became a statistician because I was put in prison,” The Economist, on British statisticians during WWII
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 »