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.

Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Monday, February 28, 2011

This should literally be a textbook example of how phrasing and context affect polling

›
Talking Points Memo discusses how two polls given in the same week can get starkly different results : Last week, a Gallup poll showed tha...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Bad polls, good polls, better polls

›
You might have expected Nate Silver to sleep through the rest of the week after the elections, but the Red Bull must flow freely at 538. Any...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Candidate Rorschach will not be running

›
Nate Silver has an excellent post that implicitly makes a point that slips past most analysts: in a campaign where an incumbent faces an un...
›
Home
View web version

Contributors

  • Joseph
  • Mark
Powered by Blogger.