December 4, 2018
Briefly
- On the relationship between infographics and scientific illustration
- A non-peer-reviewed lab-bench research study being used to market some ‘natural’ product isn’t new on StatsChat. All the problems being pointed out in the news story is, though.
- If you like running gratuitously long distances, you might like runningstats.nz. It includes comparisons of all the NZ marathon, half-marathon, and 10k events that are based on comparing the same runners on different routes and so aren’t biased by different participation in different events.
- Chris Knox has a nice interactive at oneroof for looking at real estate price changes across NZ.
- Lessons From Posting A Fake Map
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 »
The One Roof real estate price interactive, while using median price for each city, also uses %.
So that Wellington and Whangarei could seem to be similar at 2.6% and 2.3% increases respectively.
The actual increase on mean is about $19K in Wellington and $8K in Whangarei. Its the old problem of comparing %.
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