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Data Driven Decisions: March 2009
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Monday, March 16, 2009. Does the NCAA Selection Committee Use Regression Analysis? The committees job is to pick and rank the 65 best college basketball teams (including those who won their conference tournaments). They want to choose the teams that are most likely to win games in the NCAA tournament. Now, regression analysis seems like a perfect tool for this type of dilemma, but does the selection committee use it? Based on the slow involvement of statistics in other sports, my guess is no. 7 Inequalit...
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Data Driven Decisions: November 2009
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009. I don't know if there is any issue with such a generational divide. It currently appears that it's only a matter time before legalization. Nate Silver projects when each state will legalize gay marriage via a regression model with the following variables:. 1 The year in which (a gay marriage type) amendment was voted upon;. 2 The percentage of adults in 2008 Gallup tracking surveys who said that religion was an important part of their daily lives;. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Data Driven Decisions: November 2008
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Saturday, November 29, 2008. Stat of the Week: Health Care Costs. According to 2005 Paul Krugman. Article at the New York Times. The following is per capita. Spending on Health Care. 5,267 on health care/ $2,364 is government spending. 2,931 on health care / $2,048 is government spending. 2,736 on health care / $2,080 is government spending. Screening that does not extend or improve lives. More on this later, but as you can see in the following graph. Yeah it's a problem. Stat of the Week. Source: ACS 20...
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Data Driven Decisions
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Data Driven Decisions: October 2009
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Thursday, October 29, 2009. From Half the Sky. The other trade-off is head size. Beginning with our Cro-Magnon ancestors, human skull size expanded to accommodate more complex brains. Larger brains offer an evolutionary advantage once a child is born, but they increase the chance that a large-headed fetus will never emerge alive from the mother.". Thursday, October 8, 2009. Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Improving Self Reported BMI. Many epidemiological studies measure adiposity. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Data Driven Decisions: December 2008
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Saturday, December 27, 2008. How Do Men Die in the Prime of their Lives? My friends and I are reaching a milestone soon - a quarter century lived. Our own deaths are probably very far from our minds, and for good reason: about 2 percent of male deaths come from the 25-34 category. So while small, it is not insignificant and worth looking at. According to the CDC. In 2004 - the following are the top ten causes of death for males in the United States between the ages of 25-34. 2 Suicide - 14.6%. To include...
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Data Driven Decisions: January 2009
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. From the Latest Well Article from Tara Parker-Pope:. Today, fewer than half of all high school students have had sex: 47.8 percent as of 2007, according to the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, down from 54.1 percent in 1991. A less recent report suggests that teenagers are also waiting longer to have sex than they did in the past. A 2002 report from the. Department of Health and Human Services. While the given oral sex statistic is interesting, I wonder how many sexually ac...
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Data Driven Decisions: Lag
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Thursday, October 29, 2009. I like the alternate measures of unemployment. October 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Maryland, United States. I am currently a grad student studying cancer epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. I am interested in the topics to be discussed such as sports, politics, finance, and health. I should be busy the next few years with school, so posts may be sparse. View my complete profile. Stat of the Week. What would you like this site to discuss most?
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Data Driven Decisions: Childbirth and Evolution
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Thursday, October 29, 2009. From Half the Sky. The other trade-off is head size. Beginning with our Cro-Magnon ancestors, human skull size expanded to accommodate more complex brains. Larger brains offer an evolutionary advantage once a child is born, but they increase the chance that a large-headed fetus will never emerge alive from the mother.". Are you trying to explain why the average woman doesnt run as fast as the average man? October 29, 2009 at 6:16 PM. October 29, 2009 at 9:42 PM. FiveThirtyEigh...
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Data Driven Decisions: May 2010
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Monday, May 3, 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryland, United States. I am currently a grad student studying cancer epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. I am interested in the topics to be discussed such as sports, politics, finance, and health. I should be busy the next few years with school, so posts may be sparse. View my complete profile. Stat of the Week. What would you like this site to discuss most? 1 The Obesity Epidemic in America. 2 Top causes of death for young males/females.
