July 24, 2013
Briefly
- Some 1920-30s cartograms (distorted maps) of the USA, at Making Maps. Here’s the one based on electricity use
- Another map: the USA has low income mobility (ie, children of the poor stay poor), but there is quite a lot of variation over the country. This is the version of the map from the original researchers, click for the shiny interactive New York Times version
- A good story about a new randomized trial of a melanoma vaccine, based on NZ research. The story even says that the trial is measuring specific components of immune response, not (yet) actual disease. As should always be the case, the trial is registered and there’s more detail at the registry.
- A post about wild extrapolation in estimating the value of marine reserves to (UK) anglers:
Or you could look at the Celtic Deep rMPA, a site located some 70km offshore, where they estimate between 145,000 and 263,000 angling visits per year. That’s 400-720 visits a day, which translates to approx 40-70 typical sea angling boats, each full to the gunwales every single day of the year.
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 »