November 11, 2016
Briefly
- Rafa at Simply Statistics on the accuracy of the 538 forecasts
- Comparing the results of different geocoding (ie, address-looking-up) software (from Richard Law)
- Why polls are (even) worse on understanding issues than estimating voting intentions: “I once got 12% of Americans to say that Trump’s steak preferences affected their likelihood of supporting him”
- The gravity wave detection system that saw colliding black holes earlier this year has a lot of tests and checks. Including sending fake signals into the analysis
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 »