Monthly Archives: May 2020

Bayes Rule for Poets and other Mathematical Virgins* :-)

[ * The title alludes to a book titled “Higher Mathematics for Poets & other Mathematical Virgins” by Tönis Tönisson, a book that for many many moons ago got me to appreciate mathematics in depth] If you are anything like … Continue reading

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Corona Sweden – Expected vs Actual Deaths – an anomaly

Sweden is different : not only in “strategy”, but also with respect to the pattern of weekly deaths: while all other countries that have reached the inflection point (at least of the handful I monitor closely) show – after having … Continue reading

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Understanding Exponential Growth

  Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Levitt explains exponential growth in context of the Corona pandemic.  

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From Spectator : Norway health chief: lockdown was not needed to tame Covid

Lockdown unnecessary…? 

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Corona True Mortality Rate & percentage infected

It’s been a while ago since I ran my Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation on true mortality rate, so I did so last night. This time only accounting for the data from the past 30 days, reason being a hypothesis … Continue reading

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The Swedish Corona Strategy Explained

Once in a while you can find something worthwhile in social media. Just the other day, out of the blue, came a post on Facebook flying by, a post that in a few paragraphs managed to explain, in a very … Continue reading

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Corona Sweden : Excess Deaths (all causes) Year-to-Date going down

SCB.se has just published an update on this year’s Excess Deaths (compared to a baseline of 2015-2019) up until May-22. SCB is the government bureau of statistics, and these numbers represent *all* deaths, not just those accounted to Corona. Thus, … Continue reading

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‘Nothing can justify this destruction of people’s lives’

From Spiked: ‘Nothing can justify this destruction of people’s lives’

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Corona Weekly Trends US & Sweden : Actual vs Expected deaths – now 4th consecutive week of decline in deaths

US: SWEDEN:

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Gender Bias – but not the way you’d think : Simpson’s Paradox strikes again!

I’ve previously touched upon Simpson’s Paradox and the (for statisticians!) famous example fromUniversity of California Berkeley, where it indeed looked like that the admission board favored men over women: while 44% of male applicants got admitted, only 35% of the … Continue reading

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