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This blog has now moved to GitHub

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After about 10 years of being hosted at wordpress.com, my personal blog “Let’s Look at the Figures” is now moving to GitHub. The reasons are various, includ...

Robust measurement from a 2-way table

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I work in a university. My department runs degree courses that allow students a lot of flexibility in their choice of course “modules”. (A typical student ta...

Simple maths of a fairer USS deal

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In yesterday’s post I showed a graph, followed by some comments to suggest that future USS proposals with a flatter (or even increasing) “percent lost” curve...

USS proposals: Tail wagging the dog?

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In response to my previous post, “Latest USS proposal: Who would lose most?”, someone asked me about doing the same calculation for the USS JNC-supported pro...

Future USS: Robin Hood can help?

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In this post I’ll follow up on the previous one, USS pension scheme and fairness, in the light of this week’s UCU proposals (proposals which provide a basis ...

USS pension scheme and fairness

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The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is among the largest pension schemes in the UK.  It provides pensions for academic and other staff in most of th...

R and citations

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We’re hosting the international useR! conference at Warwick this summer, and I thought it might be interesting to try to get some data on how the use of R is...