October 24, 2014

On the statistical generalisability of personal experience

Going by people I know in real lifeĀ or on Twitter, you would think the majority of people brought up in the Mormon church become scientists. though I am informedĀ this is not actually the case.

There’s an interview with one of them, Heather Hendrickson, in the Herald.

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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 »