“1.7%” ha ha ha
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-03-15
Summary:
Jordan Ellenberg writes: Lots of people sharing this today. Isn’t this exactly the kind of situation where they should have done some kind of shrinkage towards the national mean, as in that thing you wrote about kidney cancer rates by county? i.e. you see, just as you might expect, the extreme values of “proportion of [...]