Stuart Coles, Author at Smartodds

Testing times

As referred to in an earliest post, it's been understood from the start of the epidemic that testing for Coronavirus is crucial for limiting its...

In an earlier post I referred to an Austrian study in which a random sample of the inhabitants of a region had been tested for the...

In an earlier post I showed how a comparison of two different, though similar, provinces of Italy which had adopted different approaches to...

I was thinking of writing a post giving a kind of glossary of various statistical terms and tools that are relevant for interpreting reports...

One issue that's constantly pushed by the media about the effects of COVID-19 is that it's much more deadly for older people than for younger...

A recurrent theme in the COVID-19 posts to this blog is the difficulty in interpreting data and analyses due to the way data are collected....

A recent Guardian article explained why many of the data that are reported about the spread of Coronavirus are bound to be wrong. As...

There's been plenty of speculation (here, here, here,...) that the novel Coronavirus might be seasonal, meaning that transmission rates will...

In a previous post I referenced a book by the eminent statistician David Spiegelhalter. Since earlier this year, Davis has also been producing a...

The graph above is the latest (as of 5th April) update from the FT showing a 7-day rolling average of the number of new COVID-19 confirmed cases...

In an earlier post, I discussed the 'stringency index', which has recently been developed as a way of measuring how severe - stringent - a...

Actually, not in that sense, but you can find relevant information here. For good and for bad, the Coronavirus epidemic is generating a large...