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, September 15, 2013

Fiscal responsibility

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As we get further into the debt conversation, I think this is worth remembering : People have largely forgotten about this, but back in th...

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The 401(k) world

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There has been some real tough reflection on tax expenditures recently. I have always seen 401(k) and IRA savings vehicles as being a bette...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Health Care Costs

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We have known for a while that the United States spends a lot on health care . What is interesting is that the direction seems to be moving...

Monday, February 7, 2011

Speaking of epicycles...

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James Kwak has a beautiful stone-by-stone dismantling of this paper by Bryan Caplan and Scott Beaulier . The paper argues that welfare pro...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

“We've made enormous advances in what they're called” -- more on corporate data cooking

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Yesterday, I mentioned how bundled offers and the ability to pick the most advantageous data could allow a company to produce any number of...

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