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What happened in Spain?

By Monkey Posted on May 31, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments

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. …

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Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

How’s Germany doing?

By Monkey Posted on May 30, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments

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 …

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Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

Covid-19: Let’s continue to be balanced

By Monkey Posted on May 23, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments

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 …

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Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

How science and statistics can keep us balanced

By Monkey Posted on April 24, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments

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 …

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Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

Ebola screening

By Monkey Posted on October 11, 2014 Posted in Commentary No Comments

What are the arguments over ebola screening really about? Here’s my go at explaining, with a bit of help from the Reverend Bayes.

Tagged with: Bayesian, disease modelling, ebola, public health, statistics

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