December 31, 2014
Duck! Here comes another year.
This year the visits to StatsChat have been about 1/3 for rugby prediction, about 1/3 for other posts, and about 1/3 for the home page. We had a slight increase in page views over last year.
Some specific things I’d like to highlight:
- The first week of Currie Cup predictions was one of the most popular posts, and judging from the time of day there were also a lot of South African readers of the Super 15 prediction posts. Haere mai. Welcome. Welkom. Siya namkela nonke. Ngiyanemukela.
- One of the top non-rugby posts was based on a Herald story about Len Brown with an almost incomprehensibly inaccurate result from a real survey. Hat tip to Lennart Nout.
- Three of our posts on the lottery keep being popular, but I suspect it’s because people think we’ll help them beat the Optional Stopping Theorem.
- Some people have footnotes. I have Wikipedia links. This year the pages I’ve sent reasonable numbers of people to include: the Optional Stopping Theorem, list of IARC Group I carcinogens, the endowment effect, Betteridge’s Law, British Chiropractic Association vs Simon Singh, and Radio Yerevan jokes
- Our top referrers (apart from Twitter and Facebook) include Kiwiblog, Simply Statistics, Reddit, Andrew Gelman, and Lindsay Mitchell. I was glad to see Public Address moving up the list this year.
- If you want my Q&A dialogues, you can get them all with this search
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 »