Salt Hill Statistical Consulting

11/09/2024

Good interview and good swim fayanne!!!

04/27/2021

Latest post:

Vaccinated people can and should live completely without restrictions regarding masks, gathering, and social distancing.  They pose virtually no risk to themselves or others, and their re-entry would help us get to herd immunity faster.

04/15/2021

J&J shouldn't have been paused:

Yesterday, with scant evidence, the CDC recommended, and all 50 states adhered to, a pause in J&J vaccinations.  While a committee is meeting today (see https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/health/johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine.html ), it will likely be days or more before they re-start vaccinations (...

03/31/2021

Latest blog:

First AZ announces a 79% effective vaccine when it was only 76% (https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/981042289/latest-astrazeneca-report-supports-effectiveness-of-covid-vaccine #:~:text=The%20latest%20analysis%20finds%20the,or%20critical%20disease%20and%20hospitalization).  This was because AZ left out s...

03/15/2021

new blog post here about more COVID good news!

A month ago I wrote that as far as COVID goes, it's all good news (https://salthillstatistics.com/posts/98).  The only thing that has changed is that it's gotten better.

01/31/2021

New blog post here:

One of the things that has irked me from near the start of this pandemic is the approbation showered on Cuomo and other governors who took a long-term, harshly restrictive approach.  To be sure, in early March 2020, I said that we are in trouble without extreme measures (see https://salthillstatist...

01/17/2021

New blog post:

We are at or past the peak of the second wave of COVID cases in NYC, meaning cases are beginning to slowly drop (deaths lag and will likely to continue to increase for a few weeks, unfortunately).  Before I explain why I believe this to be true, let's go back in time.

07/17/2020

Latest blog:

Our dear leader in orange is clearly a villain with respect to COVID, whose response has ranged from nothing to blaming others. So it is natural that we need heroes. Anthony Fauci has proven worthy over and over, for decades, actually. There are many other scientists who sounded the alarm, als...

03/08/2020

Coronavirus blog:

Take a look at the above chart.  The United States shows the highest death rate in the world (deaths divided by confirmed cases) for COVID-19, the coronavirus currently sweeping the world.  There is no indication that the U.S. form has mutated in any way, so why is the reported death rate so much ...

07/31/2019

A couple of new blogs. This is the first:

The chances that a randomly selected man will be 7 feet tall or more is about one in a million.  So it follows that the chance of two randomly selected men being 7 footers is the square of one in a million, which is one in a trillion, right?

01/13/2019

New blog post on the web site...

An article in today's NY Times says that low-skilled workers used to have a big jump in income if they worked in an urban area but that difference is disappearing.  You can read the whole article here.  The article talks about a presentation by MIT professor David Autor (which can be found here). ...