September 21, 2012

Statistician on Radio NZ

Otago-born Len Cook was the Director of the Office for National Statistics in the UK from 2000-2005. He also served as Registrar-General of England and Wales and in that role got to decide that Prince Charles and Camilla’s marriage could proceed. Prior to that he spent nearly 30 years at the Department of Statistics in New Zealand, holding the top post of Government Statistician from 1992 to 2000. On Nine to Noon yesterday

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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 »