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#Statistician: a person who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.

@martincigan You mean as a kind of magic math that always works? Maybe, but then the person who presents such a figure needs to explain why they believe so. I am pretty sure the reason is simply that this is the easiest function to fit.

Pro tip: If you want to expose a #datascientist for not being a #statistician, (and you could do this here too), ask them: What precisely do these shaded areas around your curves represent? Stammering guaranteed.

👨‍🔬🤖 Oh, look at Mr. #Statistician trying to play god with a single #AI model and save all of science! Surely, this isn't just another elaborate excuse for a taxpayer-funded #trip to "lead" a meeting in Santa Fe. 🚀💼
https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/1269-earl-lawrence-ai #Science #TaxpayerFunding #SantaFe #HackerNews #ngated

The @snsf_ch is looking for a #statistician (PhD) for its #Data Team. This is a great environment, and we do exciting work, to support scientific #research in #Switzerland and promote the value of research.

If you have any question regarding the work environment, the team, or ehat we do, drop me a message 😉

https://recruitingapp-2829.umantis.com/Vacancies/854/Description/2?lang=eng

@lproven @theregister as much as I love the #freedom and #autonomy of #linux it's definitely a #purest #technically #adept approach to self #digitization

The majority of people I've worked with want nothing to do with knowing how anything works. They just want their computer to auto-load all their bents like #magic , be able to access anything on the #Network without getting permission and install any #app on their #device they choose.

#Government , #libraries especially, need to untether from #broZone #architecture and do things for themselves again.

I'm not a #statistician and only have #anecdotal #evidence to go by, but I don't see a whole lotta folks doing, or even wanting, to do things themselves. Let alone, pick up the #skills required to do so.

The worst part, the people actually willing and able to help, can't afford to, because it doesn't #pay well, enough.

So, we all have to figure out a way to fix "that" first. But, that would require everyone believing doing #work themselves is better for them and the #Earth in the long run rather than #automating each and every #human #interaction out of #existence

#InvisibleTouch by #Genesis

https://youtu.be/jpmiZ7zsHXY

#MuzakLessons #Automation Don't lose your #touch make them #visible and #purposeful each time; every #time

#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

Rachael Meager
* Rachael Meager is an Australian economist and statistician. Their principal adviser was Esther Duflo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Meager
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rachael_Meager

#Economist #Statistician #Australian #Alumni

#Statistician vs #DataScientist #Python #R

@inbo is #hiring a #statistician or #datascientist to develop monitoring schemes for #InvasiveAlienSpecies. More details in Dutch at https://www.vlaanderen.be/werken-voor-vlaanderen/vacatures/statisticus-data-scientist-monitoring-invasieve-uitheemse-soorten-605e6e #rstats

What a great story! Big props to the teachers, family and community around this budding #statistician for creating a supportive environment for her exploration and flourishing. More of this please! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520 #CommunityScience #MagpieSwooping #LegoVisualisation

Obituary for Calyampudi Radhakrishna #Rao who pioneered powerful #statistical methods that underpin modern #scientific data analyses.

C. R. Rao, #statistician who transformed #data #analytics (1920–2023) He was 102!!
#statistics #science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03200-5

How #NASA plans to send humans farther into #Space than ever before : Nat Geo

C. R. Rao, #Statistician who transformed data analytics (1920–2023) : Nature

Creating the #Patterns of play that win #Matches : Medium

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The Office of the Chief Statistician at #OMB has an opening for a #Statistician to help oversee government-wide statistical policy development and implementation.

It’s DC-based and GS-12/13 with a pay of at least $94,199. Apps due 7/26 at usajobs.gov/job/736451500.

#AltAc #FedJobs #ProgramEval @sociology #SocialSciences #Quant #QuantMethods #PublicPolicy #DataScience #Statistics #DataQuality #Demography #EdPolicy

As a STATISTICIAN, GS-1530-12/13, your typical work assignments may include the following: Provide policy and technical oversight of Agency programs that collect statistical information or generate evidence on demographic, social, economic, education, justice, health, or environmental topics using statistical methods. Coordinate interagency working groups that develop and implement government-wide best practices for measuring population characteristics, improving statistical methods and models, and disseminating statistics about small groups. Lead development or maintenance of Federal Government-wide regulations, policies, and standards designed to promote data quality, utility, comparability and consistency, and protect confidentiality, mitigate the risk of reidentification, and otherwise enhance the integrity of Federal statistics. Support development and implementation of requirements within the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, to include development of regulations, implementation of the Standard Application Process, and/or the development of a National Secure Data Service demonstration.

Got a good #statistician challenge for a fan of #actuary #actuarial studies, #age and #aging — how is this line best described?

It's all about a funny inverse relationship to "risk of death" (within a year) to the "added life expectancy" (bonus days of life) you can expect as you make it to your next birthday — while others around you do not.

Congratulations, you made through the Filter — you're one of the stronger ones, on principle.

There's clearly a well-known thing of "it's great to be 10", where the lifelong measurement of risk-of-dying is at its all-time lowest.

But, so, what's this flattening at age 20 through 30? Only seen easily in logarithmic scale … but in fact, if looking at women only, it goes *DOWN* slightly — what!?

I need help translating this into plain English too: Does it mean a 30-year-old woman is more sensible than a 21-year-old woman?

I can see how the teenage years filter very quickly, and the years after 30+ are normal. But how would you describe it?

Chart of derived data from "life tables" at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing female age, with a line rising exponentially from childhood to age 100, with years of life expectancy being added to at a rate of 0.8 years per year by age 100. An eyeball approximation shows it would reach 1.0 around age 110-120, which is impossible.

There is a large jump from 0.25 to 0.00 in the first year of childhood, due to the risks from childbirth, and the very low number sits around 0.00 to 0.01 from age 3 to 16 or so.

This is the same chart and same data, but the Y-axis is changed to logarithmic, so the "Years Added to Life Expectancy" has an axis labelled at 0.00 and 0.01 and 0.10 and 1.00, each evenly spaced apart.

This reveals a clear minimum on the curve at age 10 (as in "probability of dying" in the next year), following a newborn year of massive risk drop and risks continuing to fall for 10 years. Then risk rises at the fastest rate of the entire lifespan between ages 10 and 20, but then astonishingly those aged in their 20s remain at the same risk level for their whole decade.

In fact, for females only, the risk of a 29-year-old is slightly lower than a 21-year-old. Males didn't show this and showed a level line here. In every other part of life, the shape of the line was the same for men as for women, but of course with the difference that men die earlier overall.

With the usual #statistician’s caveat that #causality is really hard to sort out in data like this even with good #controls … yes, I believe this. And the #mechanisms aren’t hard to find, either. 😐

The usual disclaimer: this is promising, but don’t count on great results.

If it works as advertised—if—it could be what #Theranos promised and so spectacularly failed to deliver. #Grail is using well-understood technology and (I think) large enough samples to make the claims for the #Galleri test believable, at least. And the #NHS (again, I think) doesn’t have the kind of incestuous relationships with financially interested parties that helped #Holmes et al. get away with such fraud for so long. So I’m inclined to trust their reporting.

With that said, the usual #statistician’s disclaimer applies: #multiple #testing is hard. So, for that matter, does the #medic’s and the #biologist’s, because there are multiple kinds of multiple testing going on here. The more you test, the more you will screw up.

I almost appended “it’s like a law of nature” to that last sentence above … but no, it is a law of nature. Unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics something something.

#Cancer screening is important, and steady improvements in the field have already saved untold numbers of lives. I expect this will continue to be the case. So take this with cautious optimism. Pushing back the boundaries a little bit at a time, each small step representing another decade or year or month of life—it’s what we do, every day. I want to believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study

random walk, n., the route through an open plan office taken by a #statistician whilst waiting for their #MCMC chains to converge (hopefully). Expected length of route may depend on factors such as hardware specifications, informativeness of #priors, and whether there's a good coffee machine nearby. #statsodon #Bayesian #iamworking @pymc

Indian-American mathematician C R Rao awarded International Prize in Statistics for revolutionary work read more at https://www.mindvoice.live/indian-american-mathematician-c-r-rao-awarded-international-prize-in-statistics-for-revolutionary-work/

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[after some chitchatting] phlebotomist: what kind of doctor are you?
Me: I’m not a doctor*, I’m a statistician.
Phlebotomist: you have a great sense of humor, you probably have good bedside manners.
🤔😅
*I am, in fact, a doctors just not the kind I thought she meant. The statistician kind. #Statistician #AcademicMedicine #NotThisKindOfDoctor

Statistician: evaluation of breast cancer treatment

Come join us in #Oslo as a #statistician

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