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free range statistics
Personal blog · freerangestats.info/blogdatascience
free range statistics is a personal blog at freerangestats.info about data and science. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post examining the implausible health data in a company's Covid-19 papers published in NEJM and the Lancet. Commenters cite it as support for their doubts about the papers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write about applications of data and analytical techniques like statistical modelling and simulation to real-world situations. I show how to access and use data, and provide examples of analytical products and the code that produced them.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2020/05/30/implausible-health-data-firm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-03
What Hacker News says?
Ugh. I'm so disappointed in this whole situation. Feels like Theranos. I want to cover my eyes and ears for the media and political shit show that's going to come from this. It's true that a certain politician shouldn't be trumpeting unproven treatments, but the media seemed to celebrate when that politician was "proven" wrong. Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work? I hoped during this p…
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/30/implausible-health-data-firm
on “A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling”Submitted Stepwise selection of variables in regression is Evil as a story · 39 points
HN discussionIt's amazing how big of a mess this is: - NEJM and the Lancet published (and "peer reviewed") this article, or apparently just rubber stamped it. - The company doesn't have any semblance of having the capability of doing the work it purports to do. - The article has severe inconsistencies, for example, do you really have data on 98k hospitalized patients? http://freerangestats.info/blog/2020/05/30/implausible-healt.…
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/30/implausible-health-data-firm
on “A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling”Submitted Snakes and Ladders Simulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion