Unclear on the concept: average time to event

Stats Chat 2013-03-29

Summary:

One of our current Stat of the Week nominations is a story on Stuff claiming that criminals sentenced to preventive detention are being freed after an average of ‘only’ 11 years. There’s a widely-linked story in the Guardian claiming that the average time until Google kills new services is 1459 days, based on services that have [...]

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Tags:

politics risk random variation estimation

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

03/29/2013, 03:12

Date published:

03/29/2013, 01:36