Lancet post number 200
Category: LancetIraq
The WikiLeaks Iraq archive reveals large number of deaths in Iraq that had been kept secret. This does not refute the Lancet study in any way.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 115 Comments •
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LancetIraq:
More on surveys of violent war deaths
Category: LancetIraq
Andrew Mack emails me to draw attention to his paper ("Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation" by Spagat, Mack, Cooper and Kreutz), which criticizes Obermeyer et al's paper Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia. I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:44 AM • 28 Comments •
Lancet correction published
Category: LancetIraq
The Lancet has published a minor correction to the 2006 study on deaths in Iraq
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 15 Comments •
Journal of Peace Research publishes badly flawed paper, part 3
Category: LancetIraq
The model used in Johnson et al's paper alleging main street bias in the Lancet study of deaths in Iraq is wrong because it assumes that there is no main street bias in the sampled region and because of this they massively overestimate any bias in the Lancet sampling.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:59 PM • 39 Comments •
Johns Hopkins completes review of Lancet study
Category: LancetIraq
Johns Hopkins investigation of Lancet study found that IRB rules were broken because they collected names of people interviewed, but that this did not affect the results.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:33 PM • 118 Comments •
Journal of Peace Research publishes badly flawed paper, part 2
Category: LancetIraq
The recent paper in the Journal of Peace Research by Johnson et al purports to find a substantial bias in Burnham et al's study of deaths in Iraq published in the Lancet. However, if we correct the errors in their map of the coverage or Iraq, the bias goes away.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:54 AM • 196 Comments •
New Scientist on AAPOR censure
Category: LancetIraq
Aapor has censured Burnham for not sharing his data despite him sharing with researcher published in AAPOR's own journal.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:24 PM • 42 Comments •
Journal of Peace Research publishes badly flawed paper
Category: LancetIraq
The "main street bias" paper only comes up with a significant number by making some absurd assumptions.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:36 PM • 259 Comments •
Reaction to the AAPOR press release
Category: LancetIraq
Comments on the AAPOR press release critical of Gilbert Burnham
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:57 AM • 101 Comments •
AAPOR alleges Gilbert Burnham violated AAPOR's code
Category: LancetIraq
AAPOR alleges Gilbert Burnham did not release enough information about the Lancet study, but fails to say exactly what this information is.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:13 AM • 47 Comments •
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