I crunched the numbers, and they suggest the Robodebt algorithm’s error rate was on the order of 80%.
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A scientist has crunched the numbers and come up with rules to make the Bad Santa game fairer and more fun.
We analysed data from almost 88,000 matches played over 26 years across 11 major European leagues. This is what we found.
Record-keepers have a pretty good sense of how many people have died. But figuring out the cause of those deaths is a lot trickier – and that’s why reasonable modelers can disagree.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
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Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Statistics, Virginia Tech
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Workday Professor of Technology and Society, Trinity College Dublin
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Postdoctoral research associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Wollongong