After spending the last few months in China and not able to see or post at my own blog, this site seems dead. For a long while the famous Great FireWall of China has been blocking access to all wordpress.com traffics. Computers in China have hard time to gain access to webpages with domain names, […]
Finally, the wait is over. Welcome back, regular ads! It is depressing (and exciting in a certain degree) to live in Columbus (OH) during an election year, especially as a statistician. Watching political ads talking about numbers and statistics is depressing. These guys are really good at picking up a needle from a haystack and […]
Heard two stories about unemployment rates on NPR today. The first report is about the hottest topic today: “One Jobs Report, Two Different Political Spins” that reports the nation’s unemployment rate in US fell to 7.8 percent in September. As the title suggests: one number, two interpretations: The Obama administration got good news Friday: Jobs are […]
Statistical analysis is relatively hard, but it is a piece of cake compared to data collection, cleaning, and manipulation. In fact, in clinical trials research, we spend millions of dollars to develop and advance the capability to effectively manage d...
On May 9, 2012 , House Republicans passed a bill to eliminate the American Community Survey, 232 to 190, out of fear that the government survey was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Quote from Operating in the Dark: This is know-nothingness at a new level. The American Community Survey, which gives annual updates of Americans’ economic, [...]
