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.

Friday, October 1, 2021

A couple of curious things about Fresno

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Like the late Rodney Dangerfield, Fresno gets no respect. The name itself has been treated as a joke. But Fresno is not a small pl...
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Thursday, September 30, 2021

At least Soylent was in on the joke

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Absolutely no red flags here. Also never forget why it’s called Ozy https://t.co/y0nIQRX47W pic.twitter.com/InL8CBWv1d — Matthew Zeitlin ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

What do disgraced turn-of-the-millennium financial gurus do for a second act?

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 Should have seen this one coming. Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Issues Stark Warning, Tells Investors To Grab Bitcoin and Ethereum Before ‘Gian...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

A primer for New Yorkers who want to explain California housing to Californians

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I shouldn't have to write this but... 1. The three biggest cities in the state are Los Angeles (by a large margin), San Diego, and San J...
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Monday, September 27, 2021

Did the NIMBYs of San Francisco and Santa Monica improve the California housing crisis?

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Maybe so, if you're willing to go along with a few assumptions.  First, you have to more or less go along with the arguments I've be...
Friday, September 24, 2021

The trick is that the trick is...

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Interesting thoughts on just what constitutes an illusion. With a bit background.
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Yes, YIMBYs can be worse than NIMBYs Part III -- When an overly appealing narrative hooks up with fatally misaligned market forces, the results are always ugly.

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[This finishes up my first round of of NIMBY/YIMBY posts (see here, here and here). I'll be addressing Joseph's asset inflation argu...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Here we go again

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I'm sure it's a good show, but almost no one has seen Ted Lasso. Raise your hand if you still haven’t seen “Ted Lasso”…. pic.twit...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Cage match continues on development

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This is Joseph. So one piece of the ongoing housing debate is that nearly everyone agrees that housing prices are becoming a crisis and the...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Krugman then told how the ring of mountains almost kept the Challenger Expedition from finding the lost city of Los Angeles

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God, this is painful. Economists trying to understand the rise and fall of regions within a country often rely on some form of economic bas...
Friday, September 17, 2021

The cage match goes wild

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This is Joseph Mark had a thoughtful reply to me here . In response I am going to make a strong argument that there is a very simple way to ...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Yes, YIMBYs can be worse than NIMBYs Part II -- Peeing in the River

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Last time , I suggested the following rules for prioritizing development:  1. Locations should be centrally located in a high population are...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

They used to wait till the last minute

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Via Andrew Gelman From NBC News : Republican Larry Elder  appealed on Monday to his supporters to use an online form to report fraud, whic...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Lifetime caps on dementia costs

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This is Joseph. So I was looking at this proposal in the United Kingdom to cap dementia costs over one's lifetime to £86,000 per person...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Is the US Supreme Court political?

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This is Joseph This came up in two recent contexts. One, is the question of whether Justice Breyer is likely to retire now, while there is...
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