June 6, 2018

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    • According to the Daily Mail “Brisk ten-minute walk, around 1,000 steps, can increase mortality by 15 per cent.”  They mean decrease.
    • Wikipedia thinks Amanda Cox, the data visualisation expert from the New York Times, isn’t “notable”. They are wrong and they should feel bad. But also, published evidence that she is notable would be useful.
    • The FDA has issued guidance on how to include pregnant women in clinical trials.
    • A monthly collection of the best data visualisation from around the web
    • Black cats are less popular

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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 »