https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407918315471 New Scientist
Volume 239, Issue 3193, 1 September 2018, Page 5
How to fake it in the real world
Chris Baraniuk
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How to fake it in the real world – ScienceDirect
January 26, 2019Sds-secondary Sds-dept Data science students get a sampling of potential research areas
January 26, 2019DTC genetic testing
January 26, 2019https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976
A similar video segment also aired on CBC’s national news program ‘The National’ last night (about 500,000 viewers on average). And the story is on the CBC news homepage today.
https://www.cbc.ca/news
10 Best Summer Road Trips in New England
January 24, 2019QT:{{”
“HOUSATONIC VALLEY, Connecticut
On this New England road trip, following Route 7 along the Housatonic River from New Milford to Canaan reveals the green beauty of Western Connecticut. There’s a covered bridge and waterfalls.
Distance: 35 miles.
THE QUIET CORNER, Connecticut
Travel back in history for bucolic tranquility on quiet CT169 from Old Norwich to Woodstock, meandering past colonial homesteads and stone walls, farmers’ fields and quaint town greens.
Distance: 40 miles.”
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker
January 24, 2019Why the Father of Modern Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused Cancer
January 24, 2019Why the Father of Modern #Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused
Cancer https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/ Interesting article on how even geniuses can be wrong. With a great line: “If he were alive today, Ronald Fisher would have one hell of a Twitter account.”
Bradford Hill criteria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23, 2019Austin Bradford Hill – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Bradford_Hill
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Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS[1] (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991), English epidemiologistand statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the “Bradford Hill” criteria for determining a causal association.[2][3]
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British Doctors Study – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Doctors_Study
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The British Doctors’ Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and in … Context[edit]. Although there had been suspicions of a link between smokingand various diseases, the evidence for this link had been largely circumstantial. … The original study was run by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill.
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