Author: Nils Lid Hjort

Nils Lid Hjort is a Professor of statistics and biostatistics at the department of mathematics, University of Oslo.

Towards a More Peaceful World [insert ‘!’ or ‘?’ here]

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Each war is dramatic and horrible and warrants a hundred history books and a thousand songs of sorrow. But it also provides one more data point, along with relevant covariates, to the collection of Tolstoyan war-and-peace data-bases, and statisticians may study the evolution of alleged decreasing violence levels over time. One of the bigger questions… Read more »