November 7, 2012

Briefly

  • Stuff has a story about real estate that goes beyond nominal prices and has meaningful comparisons with the past (based on ratios to average household disposable income)
  • If you want somewhere to obsessively follow the US election, there’s live blogging at fivethirtyeight.com
  • The Washington Post looks at Google trends for the query “who is running for president?”
  • Stuff has a story about studies of multivitamins, reporting that they didn’t find the health benefits they were looking for, and then concluding “The bottom line: Dietary supplements have varied effects, and whether one is right for you may depend on your personal health profile, diet and lifestyle.” You could have said that (more convincingly) without the research
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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 »