Monday, 11 November 2013

Health Statistics Teaching Examples

U.S. Panel Advises Against Routine Prostate Test - NYTimes.com
‘Super’ broccoli – no firm evidence it prevents cancer in humans : Cancer Research UK - Science Update blog
School of Homeopathy: Provings
Dana Ullman: The Swiss Government's Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine
400% Rise in Anti-Depressant Pill Use: Americans Are Disempowered -- Can the OWS Uprising Shake Us Out of Our Depression? | | AlterNet
Sally Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An open letter to the organisers of #Movember | Moustache for (Men)tal Health
Data, Drugs, and Deception: a True Story | SMART EM
Dr Raj Persaud: When Doctors Go On Strike Patients Stop Dying
Factcheck: Nursing numbers – who’s lying? | The FactCheck Blog
Satisfaction with the NHS overall 1 | The BSA survey 2011 - The King's Fund
Public satisfaction with the NHS and its services | The BSA survey 2011 - The King's Fund
The health of the people : the African regional...
Health - Brian Fung - Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now - The Atlantic
Tea ups prostate cancer risk by 50% - PakTribune
Drinking Tea 'Increases Cancer Risk'
NHS GP Standards in Free Fall, Complaints Soar by 23%, GMC Sticks Head in Sand :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
Genetically Modified Foods Position Paper:: The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM)
French Study Finds Massive Tumors And Organ Damage in Rats Fed GMOs : LAist
BetterValueHealthCare | Systems-based solutions for today's healthcare challenges
The $2.7 trillion question: Are health-care costs really slowing?
3 Billion US Dollar Pharmaceutical Company Settlement Proves Skeptic Activities Are Very Wrong | Elephants And Mice
Texas Has The Worst Health Care Services In The Nation, Agency Says
Charity warns wide variations in bowel cancer death rates must not be ignored | Beating Bowel Cancer
Lung cancer: 'If only I’d seen my doctor sooner' - Telegraph
Using technology to enhance the quality of the student experience - YouTube
229 - Vital Statistics of a Deadly Campaign: the Minard Map | Strange Maps | Big Think
'It's not what you eat, it's when you eat' part 2 - Health News - NHS Choices
Paid Parental Leave: U.S. vs. The World (INFOGRAPHIC)
BBC News - Tuberculosis vaccine hopes fade
The World is Getting Better. Quickly. - Anil Dash
BBC News - Coronavirus: Signs the new Sars-like virus can spread between people
What The 2012 Election Would Have Looked Like Without Universal Suffrage
1 In 3 Women Need You To Watch This. The Other 2 Would Prefer You Watch It Too.
Mary Roach: Let's Talk About the Orgasm
Opposites DO attract: Psychologists say couples who are too similar to each other are less likely to last | Mail Online
EPIC - European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
EJCN special issue - EPIC
Britain's 10 deadliest roads revealed - Home News - UK - The Independent
Is this the best diet news ever? Eating plenty of chocolate can keep you SLIM | Mail Online

Politics Statistics Examples



Headline of the day: An odd correction | Preliator pro Causa
The Green Benches: Graph shows last night's By-Election was the worst performance on record for the Tory Party.
The five most overrated presidents | The Daily Caller
Petition | Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell: Count all the votes in Maricopa County | Change.org
Gallup is very upset at Nate Silver - Salon.com
U21 EAEko hauteskundeak 2012
Lib Dem bar charts always lie - Two Doctors
UK Polling Report
How White Will the Electorate Be? -- Daily Intel
Bill Clinton’s claim about GOP vs. Democratic job growth - The Washington Post
FactCheck: Foxed by former defence secretary’s economy claims | The FactCheck Blog
State By State Government Land Ownership
red state, blue state, welfare state, subsidizing state « scatterplot
Economist's View: "Red States, Blue States and the Distribution of Federal Spending"
@NumbersMuncher Eats @fivethirtyeight's Lunch
The Researcher Behind the Ovulation Voting Study Responds - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education
ReadWrite – How Statistician Nate Silver Threw A Wrench Into Traditional Election Metrics
The Accuracy of the Final National Polls — The Monkey Cage
Physics Buzz: How did Nate Silver Get the Election Odds so Wrong?
Nate Silver was right about 2012. But that doesn't mean Republicans will never win the presidency again – Telegraph Blogs
House Election Results
Debunking Two Nate Silver Myths | Good Math, Bad Math
Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race - NYTimes.com
Why Super Tuesday could be the beginning of the end — in one chart - The Washington Post
Do voters really flee high-tax states? - The Washington Post
karl rove - Google Correlate
US election 2012: South Carolina by numbers - Telegraph
Michigan and Arizona exit polls: Five things to watch - Behind the Numbers - The Washington Post
Conservative party conspiracy to sabotage climate change progress - Greenpeace UK
PRESENTING: The Truth About Unemployment In America
UK Polling Report
Election Analytics | University of Illinois
Zelo Street: Guido Fawked – Less Trusted Than Facebook
Red States Are The Real Welfare States | Addicting Info
Facts aren't Left- or Right-wing – Telegraph Blogs
Sorry, nerds: Popular kids earn more in the long run

More Statistics Examples


Nancy Pelosi: Video Games Are Not The Reason For Violence In America
Worldwide think-tank warns parents: Violent images in movies, TV or computer games CAN act as triggers for aggression | Mail Online
Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass - ScienceNOW
12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music
Tai: A mathematical model for the determination of... - Google Scholar
fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/orc/resources/biosciences/exp_design/holmes2e/01student/extra_material/box8.1_spss.pdf
Temperature reconstructions
The Most Popular Girls' Names, State by State, from 1960 to the Present - Neatorama
How good is your mathematical sense of humour? Quiz | Simon Singh | Science | theguardian.com
Statistics notes | BMJ
Statistics Workshop: Hypothesis Testing by Chetan Sharma on Prezi
Indian men have the least sex: survey - NY Daily News
When are kids born? Anyway, when are babies conceived? | Bence Mélykúti
Robin Ryder's blog | Statistics and other stuff
BBC News - Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?
The Blame Game

Woo Statistics Examples

Professor Harald Walach, pseudo-scientist of the year | Edzard Ernst
Killed by an airbag: Father, 59, died in crash after glass pierced bag, releasing fumes | Mail Online
Illumination: TEDx = Woo-Tube
I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All. - Download The Universe
Vortex based mathematics at TEDx Charolette by Randy Powell
The Vortex Maths - Marko Rodin Thread - David Icke's Official Forums
Marko Rodin's vortex-based mathematics part 1 of 44 - YouTube
BBC News - Spine manipulation for neck pain 'inadvisable'
Your Access to Homoeopathy is Under Threat
Human papillomavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom: what about boys?
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise's divorce will 'develop' says Rupert Murdoch as he brands Scientologists 'evil' | Mail Online
Homeopathy does not work beyond a placebo effect - The Irish Times - Thu, Sep 20, 2012
Chiropractic Adjustings Release Pressure Off Nerves | Chiropractic News
Edzard Ernst Admits Fraudulent Credentials | Elephants And Mice
Murderous homeopaths in Haiti
Homeopathic Remedies Target Symptoms of MRSA Staph Infections and Homeopathy
Marisol Nichols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madeleine McCann breakthru .. In the eyes of Sophie Moon - World Affairs - Chinadaily Forum
Two Giant Underwater Crystal Pyramids Discovered in the Center of the Bermuda TriangleEndAllDisease.com
BBC News - Daily Mail payout to Sally Morgan over psychic 'scam' article
Homeopathy on the NHS is 'mad' says outgoing scientific adviser - Telegraph
Effects of acupuncture on the gene expression... [Mol Med Report. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI
ESP and the significance of significance | Understanding Uncertainty

Statistics Best Practice

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Aren't Gospel - Fancy Beans
Manipulating Science Reporting - On The Media
Saying Goodbye to Red-Green Color Scales — vis4.net
Here’s the Problem with Social Media Research Ethics #MRX | The LoveStats Blog
Quick-R: Probability Plots
Basic Statistics | Statistical Analysis Consulting
Probability Distributions
Binomial Probabilities in Excel
As last of 12 promised Bulfone-Paus retractions appears, a (disappointing) report card on journal transparency « Retraction Watch
Sylvia Bulfone-Paus misconduct story stretches back to at least 1999 « The k2p blog
Silvia Bulfone-Paus (School of Medicine - University of Manchester)
2011-12 Program on Uncertainty Quantification | Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)
Hive Plots
Quick-R: Boxplots
Quick-R: Axes and Text
Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong - Reason.com
Spin trumps statistics in Whitehall, says Sir Michael | Straight Statistics
PLoS Genetics: Guidelines for Genome-Wide Association Studies
BBC News - The difficulty of dealing with groping
tikz pgf - Pgfplots: how to fill the area under a curve with oblique lines (hatching) as a pattern? - TeX - LaTeX
Plotting bell shaped curve in TikZ-PGF - TeX - LaTeX
Difference quotient | TikZ example
Met Office Forecasts No Global Temperature Rise | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)