Статистика и её интерпретация.
Nov. 3rd, 2021 06:41 pmВ Британии есть организация, занимающаяся вопросами национального здоровья. Раньше она называлась “Public Health England”. Недавно организацию переименовали в “UK Health Security Agency”.
Агентство публикует еженедельные отчёты по ситуации с вакцинацией в стране. Вот последний на данный момент отчёт (43 неделя) - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1029606/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-43.pdf
В отчёте по сравнению с предыдущими выпусками появилась новая оговорка:
The vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths is not an appropriate method to assess vaccine effectiveness because of differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. The case rates in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations are crude rates that do not take into account underlying statistical biases in the data. There are likely to be systematic differences in who chooses to be tested and the COVID risk of people who are vaccinated. For example:
• people who are fully vaccinated may be more health conscious and therefore more likely to get tested for COVID-19
• people who are fully vaccinated may engage in more social interactions because of their vaccination status, and therefore may have greater exposure to circulating COVID-19 infection
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Агентство публикует еженедельные отчёты по ситуации с вакцинацией в стране. Вот последний на данный момент отчёт (43 неделя) - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1029606/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-43.pdf
В отчёте по сравнению с предыдущими выпусками появилась новая оговорка:
The vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths is not an appropriate method to assess vaccine effectiveness because of differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. The case rates in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations are crude rates that do not take into account underlying statistical biases in the data. There are likely to be systematic differences in who chooses to be tested and the COVID risk of people who are vaccinated. For example:
• people who are fully vaccinated may be more health conscious and therefore more likely to get tested for COVID-19
• people who are fully vaccinated may engage in more social interactions because of their vaccination status, and therefore may have greater exposure to circulating COVID-19 infection
( Read more... )