How surprising was the cluster of cycle deaths in London?

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Submitted by david on Sat, 04/01/2014 - 6:43am

More or Less recently featured Jody Aberdein talking about the cluster of 6 cycle deaths in London over a 2 week period.

The paper with the details of the analysis can, for a while, be freely obtained from Significance magazine.

Details of the statistical methods are given here - these are necessarily quite complex due to the need to allow for all possible 2 week periods.

Comments

paul

Wed, 08/01/2014 - 10:09pm

Very very interesting. Just wondered - is there any seasonality in deaths that needs to be considered?