statistics

Not everyone is happy with accountability systems like NYPD’s Compstat.  Sounds like some serious statistical work is getting done though: The NYPD, however, does not merely sample among its reporting units; it audits each command twice a year and samples every crime category within that command, observed New York University professor Dennis Smith and SUNY Read more

The 2010 Census hasn’t even started, and some Census temps are already curbstoning.**second definition Tip from the Drudge Report, where they still don’t do permalinks. Read more

…using the lmer package in R. Tip from Andrew Gelman at the Social Science Statistics blog. Read more

Here’s an astonishing example of how a survey can be biased by the wording of a question.  Wow!  (I just mentioned this in a short lecture I gave yesterday.) Read more

Over at Flowing Data, Nathan gives a quick tutorial on treemaps, using R.  It works! Sweet! Read more

This guy thinks we can. Tip from the Social Science Statistics Blog. Update (9 February).  However, let’s not get too cocky with those models. (Tip from Gary Jones at Muck and Mystery) Read more

Wow!  Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization.  Click through to be continually amazed. Tip from the indefatigable Nathan at Flowing Data Read more

Win drinks!  Optimize your dart throwing! Tip from the Geek Press. Read more

This must be Economics Week.  I’ve just read about 1991 Nobel Economics Prize winner Ronald Coase, who uttered the famous ‘if you torture the data long enough it will confess’. Tip from Joseph D’Aleo at Pajamas Media. Read more

When is Simpson’s Paradox NOT Simpson’s Paradox?  Gelman knows. Read more