West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Worst Statistic of the Day

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Via Lawyers, Guns, and Money comes the piece most detached from reality I've seen this year : When Josh McFarland graduated from Stan...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Is smoking really the most important predictor of obesity?

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Does this headline really represent the data?: The No. 1 Reason Americans Are Getting Fatter: We're Not Smoking The text goes on to dis...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Appropriate Scales

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Paul Krugman has a clever post about where to start a Y-axis of a graph from. He plots the temperature changes of New York . . . in kelvins...

Monday, August 1, 2011

Math issues

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Felix Salmon's last two posts are brilliant . I strongly recommend reading both of these posts. Seriously! Heck, I am likely to come...

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

How to REALLY lie with statistics

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Darrell Huff had a witty explanation of how you can change the impression a graph gives by playing around with the scale and range of the...

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How to Lie with Statistics -- Allstate Edition

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For our latest statistical lie of the week, check out the following commercial. At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, here's a ...

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