#Statistics

Football sucks because you can be the highest paid at your position and Otto Porter can still run up on you and call u broke lol Imagine being an all-time
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Galveston: In 1900, Galveston, population 36,000, was obliterated, making it the site of the worst natural disaster in US history, a sad record it retains to this day. 6,000 to
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just saw someone trying to prove a point on FB, post statistics of more whites being killed by cops then blacks . . whether right or wrong, what needs to
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I’ve been looking at officer fatalities data and started noticing some pretty big discrepancies between different sources of data.So I'm making a thread (pt.1):CW for death, mention of specific types
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And it looks like Chief Justice John Roberts will write the DACA opinion. All the other decisions from the November sitting have been assigned to other justices, and he's the
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Alright, here's a little Suffolk County, NY analysis for you. The topic: General population risk versus nursing home risk. Overall, there have been 2,012 deaths attributed to COVID in Suffolk
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Masks help. But we should be careful not to over-interpret correlations like this. These uncritical takes regarding the efficacy of masks are very easy to poke holes in. Such arguments
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At the beginning of this crisis, Sweden ignored @WHO advice, and did no lock down.In the UK, innumerate right-wing pundits opposed to lockdown suggest that Sweden is doing wonderfully well,
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I'm very glad "excess mortality" is garnering so much interest. It's a much better measure of the total death toll of the pandemic. But it is NOT "the most comparable
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THREAD on College reopening dashboardsI am both heartened as well as DEEPLY disappointed to see spectrum of Covid19 reporting by colleges & universities. Some have made enormous efforts at transparency
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Springer has given free access to some key text books during the shelter-at-home period.=======All of Statistics (A Concise Course in Statistical Inference)Link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-0-387-21736-9.pdf =======Time Serie
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Labour market statistics: a thread pulling together the various data sources. The overall picture has been a worsening labour market, but the rate of weakening slowed into June. For example,
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on Electricity pricingBeen meaning to try & do some quick analysis on this for a while but recent media coverage - "Ireland having 4th highest electricity in Europe" has really
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I'm calling Rita L. Nieves and Dr. Jennifer J. Lo of @HealthyBoston back to the 7th grade math classroom for a quick refresher on middle school statistics. #MTBoS #bospoli #bpschat
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Today's episode of "The RosterResource Show" will begin at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET. Joining me early in the show will be FanGraphs' Lead Prospect Analyst @longenhagen to
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I've spent the last hour trying to word this. The biggest misunderstanding about #BlackLivesMatter is where it's stemming from. I am just one Black person but I can explain
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