Monthly Archives: May 2010
Child Mortality Paper
Check it out, my first published research in global health: Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970—2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. I’m the ‘t’ in et al, and my contribution was … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Random Graphs in NetworkX: My Spatial-Temporal Preferred Attachment Diversion
To take my mind off my meetings, I spent a little time modifying the Spatial Preferred Attachment model from Aiello, Bonato, Cooper, Janssen, and Prałat’s paper A Spatial Web Graph Model with Local Influence Regions so that it changes over … Continue reading
Filed under combinatorics, probability
Network Theory in Health Metrics
The heavy-tailed/small-worlds crowd had a big impact in health research recently, and now it’s drawing criticism from the theorists. Slate covered the story well a couple weeks ago, and interviewed Russ Lyons at length about the methodological shortcomings of the … Continue reading
Filed under global health, statistics
