Biased and Inefficient
I’m a statistical researcher in Auckland.
- By Thomas Lumley
- Based in New Zealand
- Roughly three posts per month
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Most recent posts
I’ve mentioned before that mathematician Tim Gowers had run a ‘polymath’ (massively collaborative maths research) project on non-transitive dice. There’s an arXiv preprint. There’s also a detailed write-up in Quanta, which is a magazine devoted …
[Updated: ran it with the right version of the code] I’m writing code for multiple-frame surveys in the survey package now, and it’s at the stage where the basic stuff works (Revision 337 from r-forge) …
When I wrote about weights I mentioned that there was in some senses a fourth type of weights after sampling weights, precision weights, and frequency weights. The idea is that sometimes you have weights that …