Professor Kulldorff Has Advice for Public Health Practitioners
I favor eliminating all public health schools. Prof. Martin Kulldorff (Harvard Medical School) wrote 12 forgotten rules of public health. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Statistics
Daniela Witten on the Singular Value Decomposition
Dr. Daniela Witten discusses the singular value decomposition. Lots of good statistical stuff here. Not suitable for beginners. Continue Reading →
COVID19 State Performance
People are coming up with all sorts of creative ways to avoid the fact that NY, NJ, CT, and MI all did terrible jobs managing this disease. They’re wrong. Continue Reading →
COVID-19 Responses Explained
How should we fight COVID-19? One way: “Let it spread quickly and get this over.” Another:, “Take protective measures.” The constraint is the capacity of hospitals. Continue Reading →
Dr. Peto’s Response to an Editor’s Request for Statistics
“The patients were subdivided into 12 … groups according to their medieval astrological birth signs.” When the tongue-in-cheek zodiac subgroups were analyzed, Geminis and Libras were found to have no benefit from aspirin, but the drug “produced halving of risk if you were born under Capricorn.” Continue Reading →