Emeritus professor of statistics @OpenUniversity; Milton Keynes inhabitant; choral singer; perpetually puzzled person, interested in anything interesting.
Milton Keynes, England
Joined May 2007
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No. This is not acceptable.
The methods section is the single most important part of a scientific paper.
If those details are relegated to supplementary materials, then it's not a scientific paper in a scientific journal.
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I am so pleased to see this! You and the whole team deserve the gratitude of the whole country
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors -
open.edu/openlearn/science-m… with @JitkaVseteckova and Ellie from @TheParksTrust
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#OTD 1948 Douglas G Altman b (d 3 June 2018)🇬🇧Co-founder of the Equator Network. “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he spearheaded massive reforms in medical research reliability & role of reporting guidelines. 1/6🧵
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Don't miss our next members' event with @kjm2 book now absw.org.uk/events/statistic…
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The @NewtonGateway is running a 3-day virtual study group next week with 3 challenges from @anducnguyen @HardingProf and @StatsRegulation realating to how complex mathematical work is communicated and propagated. Still time to register and get involved:
gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/t…
Similar pattern on incidence (new infections) in this week's @ONS infection survey results as last week. Total modelled new infections for latest week available (ending 9 March) from ONS is about 3.1m, with wide error margin. New cases on dashboard for that week about 380k.
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..then the previous week, and despite the error margins, that must surely be a real and large increase (in early
March).
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Today's @ONS Covid-19 survey results show something interesting in the incidence (new cases) estimates. They are always behind the positivity estimates for technical reasons - this week they go up to 26 Feb with modelled estimates up to 2 March. Historically they've usually..
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...margin of error) and the dashboard has about 250k, so survey has 8 times as many. Not just rogue week - the proportion has been changing in that dirn for over a month. Presumably because people aren't being routinely tested &/or not reporting LFDs. On the bright(?) side..
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“Investing in random sampling can better prepare governments for the future” by @nataliexdean
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Has something happened to the @Eurostar Android app? I tried to save some tickets from it to Gpay, nothing happened. So I tried to check on the Play Store whether there was an upgrade, Search for Eurostar revealed nothing, and links to app on Eurostar website said URL not found.
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My strongest possible agree with this piece. And then even more times ten. The ONS has improved from good to excellent in the past 5-10 years. On regional statistics. The website. The accessibility. And it overachieved enormously during Covid. economist.com/britain/2022/0… – at Leeds, England
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. @CamdenCouncil has agreed a new Data Charter, drafted by a Residents’ Panel involve.org.uk/resources/blo… The development of the Charter didn’t happen in darkened rooms, hidden in the Council buildings. #open #transparent #democracy
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ONS's new estimates from their Coronavirus Infection Survey cover the week to 23 December. Not so much detail even as last week's interim results. But estimated numbers who would test +ve is up by more than half a million on the estimate for 13-19 December.
Latest #COVID19 estimates show infection rates increased across all four countries of the UK in the week ending 23 Dec 2021 ow.ly/3tN150Hli2z
ALT Estimated number of people with COVID-19 in the week ending 23 December 2021 (not living in care homes, hospitals or other institutional settings) 1 in 25 England 1 in 40 Wales 1 in 40 Northern Ireland 1 in 40 Scotland
...In UK as a whole, about 1 person in 7 is aged 70+, and that's also true for most English regions and for Scotland. Slightly more 70+ in Wales and SW England (1 in 6) and slightly fewer in NI (1 in 8). But in London it's 1 in 12. (Based on @ONS mid-2020 popn estimates.)...