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The pandemic has exposed many of us to new statistical concepts, on the news, in everyday conversations and on social media. But how many are you getting wrong?
The COVID-19 death toll in the US is now over 130,000. What do 130,000 fatalities look like? A biostatistician provides some perspective.
An easy question, but a difficult answer.
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.
A new tool that combines mortality risk factors across a big sample of the UK population can work out how middle-aged people compare.
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University
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Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
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Reader in Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Risk and Information Management, Queen Mary University of London
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor in Computer Science and Statistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Statistics and Interim Dean, College of Science, Virginia Tech
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Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics, University of Sydney
