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3 days ago · The Isle of Arran, as I’m sure you all know, is on the west side of Scotland Being an island, it has somewhat limited means of access: Caledonian MacBrayne run two ferries from the mainland. These ferries are being replaced with allegedly better ferries. However, the BBC headline said ‘Green’ ferry emits more CO2 than old diesel ship. In reply, “Ferries procurement agency CMAL, which ...
Size matters | Stats Chat
Jan 4, 2025 · Ok, this is a bit late, but I didn’t see the poll (in a physical Sunday Star-Times) until this week. An established Australian polling firm, Freshwater Strategy, have been doing polls here, too. Stuff reports that the poll (also, at the Post) …reveals 37% …
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Dec 24, 2024 · Team Ratings for Week 9. This is the promised update after the Dragons v Cardiff Rugby game. The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.
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Jan 2, 2025 · Team Ratings for Week 9. This is the promised update after the Dragons v Cardiff Rugby game. The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.
All-day breakfast | Stats Chat
1 day ago · A: No, this is in people. Twenty years of survey responses from the big US health survey called NHANES. They divided people into three groups depending on their coffee consumption on the day of their dietary interview: no coffee, coffee only between 4am and 11:59am, and coffee throughout the day Q ...
Top 14 Predictions for Round 6 - Stats Chat
Oct 7, 2024 · David Scott obtained a BA and PhD from the Australian National University and then commenced his university teaching career at La Trobe University in 1972. He has taught at La Trobe University, the University of Sheffield, Bond University and Colorado State University, joining the University of Auckland, based at Tamaki Campus, in mid-1995.
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Performance So Far. So far there have been 77 matches played, 53 of which were correctly predicted, a success rate of 68.8%. Here are the predictions for last week’s games.
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Dec 31, 2021 · Arithmetic fail by Bloomberg Australia: 126 cases over two days is not ‘more than double’ 62 cases in one day. They’ve since edited to “N.Z. Adds 126 Cases in 2 Days…New Zealand’s daily toll of new local infections has risen from the 62 reported on Dec. 24.”, which is at least arithmetically correct, since 2×62 is 124, and 126 is larger than 124.
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Aug 20, 2016 · Every summer, the Department of Statistics offers scholarships to a number of students so they can work with staff on real-world projects. David, right, is working on the New Zealand General Social Survey 2014 with Professor Thomas Lumley and Associate Professor Brian McArdle of Statistics, and Senior Research Fellow Roy Lay-Yee and Professor Peter Davis from COMPASS, the Centre of Methods and ...
Good reporting of numbers - Stats Chat
Dec 7, 2022 · Stuff has a new fact-check column, “The Whole Truth”, and there’s a good example with discussion of youth crime trends, by James Halpin.. The graphs are just the sort of thing I use and recommend: enough history and (where appropriate) enough context to see what trends are just continuing and where things might have changed