April 15, 2013

Two good local pieces

By
  • Martin Johnston in the Herald on a nationwide blood pressure survey. Blood pressures are up.  This is not good.
  • Nikki Macdonald in Stuff, on recreational genotyping (or as the story more properly calls it, “direct to consumer” genotyping).
avatar

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 »