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The Yost Index has been updated with margins of error
The Yost Index has been updated with 2015-2019 data, this time with margins of error attached. The margins of error represent 90% confidence intervals as calculated using the Census Bureau’s variance replicate tables. For the most part, the Yost Index values are precise to about plus or minus 8 points, but there is plenty ofContinue reading “The Yost Index has been updated with margins of error”
The margin of error around the Yost Index
When we say that a neighborhood ranks a 3 or a 47 or a 91 on a scale of 1 to 100, we tend to treat that as an exact quantity. There are no exact quantities in science, of course, and a client challenged me to figure out what the uncertainty was around a socioeconomicContinue reading “The margin of error around the Yost Index”
Pumphandle receives an award!
Along with Rocky Feuer, Joshua Sampson, Li Zhu, Trevor Thompson and Joe Zhou, Francis Boscoe of Pumphandle, LLC was recently awarded the Constance L. Percy Award for Distinguished Service from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries for his contributions to an expert panel on measuring cancer registry completeness.
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