Dubai doing ok
Aug 16, 2020, 12:06 am
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Dubai doing ok
https://skift.com/2020/08/11/our-col...ource=hs_email
so does this mean emirates is doing ok as well ?
Aug 24, 2020, 1:29 am
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Aug 24, 2020, 3:11 am
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Aug 24, 2020, 10:50 pm
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You know, words have meaning. The term "correlation" has a meaning that is very well defined. You said "cases don't mean deaths. There's no correlation.". This is obviously false, as we can see by looking for a time before there were any cases and seeing that, lo, there were also no deaths.
What I think you're trying to say is that you think covid19 infections and deaths are not linearly correlated. That is true, but I don't think anyone ever has ever claimed that they were. What is is however true is that covid19 infections and deaths are positively correlated. Which means that deaths tend to go up when cases go up, and go down when cases go down. The amount of correlation varies for all sorts of factors (demographics, medical care etc).
What I think you're trying to say is that you think covid19 infections and deaths are not linearly correlated. That is true, but I don't think anyone ever has ever claimed that they were. What is is however true is that covid19 infections and deaths are positively correlated. Which means that deaths tend to go up when cases go up, and go down when cases go down. The amount of correlation varies for all sorts of factors (demographics, medical care etc).
Aug 25, 2020, 12:00 am
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The silliness of this type of reasoning is that it ignores the inevitable transmission among the young & fit ...... and thence to young & not-so-fit, and to the not so young. The consequence is a new spike in infections, and some weeks' later, in deaths.
Aug 25, 2020, 12:07 am
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(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/s...-athletes.html)
"Another complication that Galiatsatos considered particularly concerning to athletes, and one that experts were still trying to wrap their heads around, was the high incidence of blood clots that doctors were seeing in coronavirus patients."
Sep 26, 2020, 12:56 am
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Sorry to be pedantic, but the definition of "correlation" means a linear relationship.
Sep 26, 2020, 2:24 am
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. Correlation in its widest sense simply implies an association.
And while in statistics the definition of the term certainly focuses almost exclusively on linear relationships, it did not prevent Spearman from developing a rank correlation coefficient to bring non-linear associations into the fold.