August 5, 2016

Briefly

  • Pollster.com is dropping (US) polls that only use landline phones.
  • From Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin, at the Guardian:  the West Island’s forthcoming Census is not making friends. This is bad. The census is important; trust in the census is important.
  • On a more positive not, the Guardian also has an database of dog names in Australia. Sadly, there aren’t any Rottweilers called “Fluffy”.

And, finally, a nice note on how to display agree-disagree data and similar:

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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 »