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• New Zealand school performance: beyond the headlines

  I like the idea of having data on school performance, not to directly rank schools—hard, to say the least, at…
  24 Sep, '12

• New Zealand School data

  Some people have the naive idea that the national standards data and the decile data will not be put together.…
  24 Sep, '12

• (Unsurprisingly) users default to the defaults

  Oddities tend to jump out when one uses software in a daily basis. The situation is even clearer when using…
  19 Sep, '12

• Suicide statistics and the Christchurch earthquake

  Suicide is a tragic and complex problem. This week New Zealand’s Chief Coroner released its annual statistics on suicide, which…
  6 Sep, '12

• m x n matrix with randomly assigned 0/1

  Today Scott Chamberlain tweeted asking for a better/faster solution to building an m x n matrix with randomly assigned 0/1.…
  29 Aug, '12

• Trust me

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  24 Aug, '12

• Mid-August flotsam

  ༄> Reached mid-semester point, with quite a few new lectures to prepare. Nothing extremely complicated but, as always, the tricky part…
  20 Aug, '12

• INLA: Bayes goes to Norway

  INLA is not the Norwegian answer to ABBA; that would probably be a-ha. INLA is the answer to ‘Why do…
  16 Aug, '12

• Music from a tree

  ♬♪ We were having a chat NZ-MX on Skype with Gus and he mentioned this video on music from a tree. Fantastic!
  16 Aug, '12

• Careless comparison bites back (again)

  When running stats labs I like to allocate a slightly different subset of data to each student, which acts as…
  7 Aug, '12