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@jonwakeblue

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Seattle Katılım Kasım 2012
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Zehang Richard Li
Zehang Richard Li@z_richard_li·
And while on this thread, more📦news: check out the new functions in *survey* package on SAE created by Peter Gao: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s… These are wrappers for similar functions in *SUMMER* package, but tailored to users familiar with survey package.
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Jonas Schöley
Jonas Schöley@jschoeley·
Global estimation is a massive task – bugs will happen. So the question is, do you have a culture that allows you to publicly admit and correct mistakes. The WHO team under @jonwakeblue had this culture. The IHME, in this instance, had not.nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Jonas Schöley
Jonas Schöley@jschoeley·
Finally, Lancet published 5(!) letters of concern on the reliability of IHME's excess death estimates. Mistakes happen, but while flawed WHO estimates were publicly admitted & corrected within days, IHME dragged their feet for 10 months and still doesn't own the problems. 🧵
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Jon Wakefield@jonwakeblue·
@RickCrawf Yes. Lots of caveats accompany ranking exercise (as we discuss), but the analysis does tell us something...
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Rick Crawford
Rick Crawford@RickCrawf·
@jonwakeblue What's the dark grey country that has done really badly since late 2020? Bulgaria?
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Jon Wakefield@jonwakeblue·
In the supplement to the WHO Nature paper nature.com/articles/s4158… we examine the relative excess mortality rate of the UK, as compared to 27 EU countries, by month. This in response to intense political debate, as we discuss.
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Jon Wakefield@jonwakeblue·
@valmacsee Thanks Valerie! And Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you!
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chris evans
chris evans@notcapnamerica·
If Donald Trump had a fragrance what would it smell like?
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Jon Wakefield@jonwakeblue·
@peteragao and I have a new paper on variance smoothing in small area estimation (SAE) arxiv.org/abs/2209.02602 The models we propose should allow more widespread use of robust SAE models, particularly in the context of health indicators in low and middle income countries
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Jon Wakefield@jonwakeblue·
@Yunhan_W and I have a new paper on how to acknowledge urban/rural stratification in small area estimation: arxiv.org/abs/2209.10619 We estimate spatial HIV prevalence in women of age 15-49 in Malawi using the stratification/aggregation method we propose
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Sondre Ulvund Solstad
Sondre Ulvund Solstad@Sondreus·
Just won the Future of Media award! Very happy to accept the award for data journalism together with @AlexSelbyB for "The pandemic's true death toll"
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