Misinterpreting statistical anomalies and risk assessment when analysing Covid-19 deaths by ethnicity
Bigstockphoto/Andreajk3Imagine there is a country called Bayesland that is divided into two distinct geographical areas…
Lethality of Covid-19 in Great Britain over 12 registration weeks
Photo by Colin D on UnsplashExcess deaths – the number of those dying above the…
Undercounting mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic
Photo by Edwin Hooper on UnsplashThis comment concerns the most common reasons mortality has been…
B. Piedad UrdinolaJuly 10, 2020
A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…
Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020
The many definitions of a Covid-19 death toll
Photo by Dan Burton on UnsplashThis note considers the different measures of the death toll…
Simon BriscoeMay 13, 2020
Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…
Kathryn LeemingMay 5, 2020
Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?
Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers
Photo by Isaac Quesada on UnsplashThe Royal Statistical Society’s Statistical Ambassadors have collated an essential…
RSS Statistical AmbassadorsApril 9, 2020
Misunderstanding the global burden of alcohol
Harmful alcohol consumption is known to cause several diseases and many deaths. A study published…
Kari PoikolainenNovember 19, 2018
Visualising ages and life trajectories of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Rick Wicklin, over at The DO Loop blog, published an interesting graph showing the ages of…
Mario Cortina Borja & Julian StanderJanuary 24, 2018
Deciding abortions by the toss of a coin?
I was recently listening to public radio one morning. I live in the U.S. and…
Michael A. LewisJuly 3, 2013
The Mid Staffordshire public inquiry and hospital death rates
The public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Trust again raises the question…
Andrew McCullochFebruary 11, 2013
What killed William Henry Harrison?
I listened to David Cannadine on Radio 4 a few weeks ago telling the story…
Andrew McCullochFebruary 6, 2013
