Due warning: ‘The Internet’ is not a medical expert. This post is not medical advice, but is a discussion of some of the nuances of medical testing thinly veiled as a discussion about sniffing poo. In times of difficulty and …
I’m a bit wary of becoming one of those armchair epidemiologists who’s wise after the fact and pontificates on what people under far more pressure decided when they didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. So I won’t. Pontificate, that is. …
I’ve written a couple of posts now on Covid-19 where I’ve mentioned that Germany is held up as a great example of success but where all-cause mortality data aren’t available. Well, now they are. On 22nd May, the Federal Statistical …
Back in April, I wrote a post about coronavirus because I was getting annoyed by the poor quality of statistical reporting and was trying to make sense of the situation myself. Today, I want to revisit the data I used …
I have’t posted on Monkeyglandin for a long time, but I want to share a little bit on the off chance that it’s of some use. A big part of good quality analysis is looking at the world objectively and …
What are the arguments over ebola screening really about? Here’s my go at explaining, with a bit of help from the Reverend Bayes.