When prediction is useless

Stats Chat 2013-07-22

Summary:

We have seen before on StatsChat that, worldwide, there’s no relationship between the position of the moon and the risk of earthquakes.  Suppose, for the sake of argument, that there was some relationship in New Zealand.  Imagine that in Wellington, 100% of big earthquakes happened in the 24-hour period centered on the moon’s closest approach [...]

Link:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StatsChat/~3/300oPOizRrE/

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Tags:

risk random variation just look it up

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

07/22/2013, 18:00

Date published:

07/22/2013, 17:04