Lancet correction published
Category: LancetIraq
The Lancet has published a minor correction to the 2006 study on deaths in Iraq
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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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
The Iraq war - A humanitarian disaster
Category: LancetIraq
The Iraq Family Health Survey, conducted by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, found that there were about 400,000 excess deaths in Iraq up to June 2006 associated with the invasion. The second Lancet survey conducted by researchers...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 AM • 102 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deaths in Iraq
Category: LancetIraq
I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war up to Oct 08. SurveyViolent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:42 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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