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PhD student at STOR-i, Lancaster University
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Survivorship Bias and Vaccines

November 16, 2020 Kes

Yet another reason why COVID is not the flu With multiple vaccine Phase III trials coming back with promising interim…

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An Introduction to Robust Statistics

June 30, 2020 Kes

Better MAD than mean. Ah, the joys of the school maths classroom. I’m not sure how old I was when…

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Tackling your Inner Critic

June 11, 2020 Kes

When I was a teenager, I wrote fanfiction. I also wrote a fair amount of original work, but most of…

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Coronavirus

March 16, 2020 Kes Leave a comment

If you’re tired of obsessively following non-scientific journalism on the COVID-19 situation and it’s causing you anxiety, why not try…

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Coupling From The Past

February 24, 2020 Kes

In Mathematics, often you don’t have a neat formula for the things you want to calculate. However, you can sometimes…

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External Methods for Explainable AI

February 12, 2020 Kes

At the STOR-i conference this year, there was a talk on “Optimising Explainable AI”. Broadly, it looked at ways to…

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Capturing Diminishing Returns in Agent-Based Models

January 21, 2020 Kes Leave a comment

Imagine you’re a Census field officer who knocks on non-respondents’ doors to encourage them to fill out the Census (it’s…

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Mathematical Fairness

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A while ago, when I was in the “MOOCs are great!” phase of my life, I took an online course…

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Ethics in Mathematics

January 9, 2020 Kes Leave a comment

Mathematical work can sometimes seem detached from the real world. The abstractness of statistics and datasets often mask the ways…

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The Toastie Tower

December 2, 2019 Kes Leave a comment

Here’s my entry for the STOR-i Bakeoff. Prompt was “bread”. Didn’t win, don’t care, had toasties. 🙂

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