Publications by John Johnson
Milwaukee Population Comparison, 1960 - 2020
Use the map below to view how Milwaukee’s population has changed since 1960. Toggle between the two baselayers to compare Milwaukee’s street grid in 1960 with the present day. See here for a discussion of these trends....
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WI College Degrees Earnings vs Cost
Earnings vs. Cost for Selected Wisconsin College Degrees Author John D. Johnson Published May 2, 2024 This table compares the average earnings 4 years after graduation with the average net price of college attendance for 608 bachelor degree programs at 38 Wisconsin colleges and universities. The information is from the October 2023 release o...
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Evers maps vs. old maps (Wisconsin Legislature)
Interactive Evers vs. Previous State Legislative Maps Author John Johnson The following interactive web maps show the borders of the maps originally submitted the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Gov. Evers in Jan. 2024 and the old districts used during the 2022 state legislative election. Click on a district to see the name and the modeled Republ...
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Milwaukee County Tract 2020 diversity data
Milwaukee County 2020 tract diversity statistics...
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The 2023 Supreme Court Election in the Milwaukee Metro
The 2023 Supreme Court Election in the Milwaukee Metro Author John D. Johnson Published April 5, 2023 The following analysis is based on unofficial election night returns. The election results from the Milwaukee metro reveal the breadth of Janet Protasiewicz’s landslide victory in the 2023 WI Supreme Court election. Liberal candidates (Prot...
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Comparing the 2022 and 2018 gubernatorial elections in Milwaukee wards
Comparing the 2022 and 2018 gubernatorial elections in Milwaukee wards Author John D. Johnson Published November 11, 2022 See here for a detailed discussion of Milwaukee metro election results. The following map includes City of Milwaukee ward level turnout and voting results for the 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections. Click on each ward...
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SAS weirdness
From time to time, I’ll complain about the weirdness of SAS, the statistical analysis program of choice for much of the pharmaceutical industry. This post is one such complaint.Why, oh why, does SAS not directly give us the asymptotic variance of the Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio estimate? It does, however, give the confidence interval...
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Review of Jim Albert’s Bayesian Computation with R
When I first read Andrew Gelman’s quick off-the-cuff review of the book Bayesian Computation with R, I thought it was a bit harsh. So did Gelman.I thumbed through the book at the joint statistical meetings, and decided to buy it along with Bayesian Core. And I’m glad I did. Albert clearly positioned the book to be a companion to a...
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The hammer, or the sledgehammer? A small study in simulation
RKN over at Epidemiology blog had a small problem he solved using simulation:I have been interested in the following question: if there are, let’s say, 5 genes involved in the liability of fx risk, and each gene has two alleles with one of them conferring a greater risk, what is the chance that an individual will have 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,...
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More stats sites
Jim Albert has a blog based on his book Bayesian Computation in R. Unfortunately, it seems they haven’t been updating it too much recently but it looks like what’s there is pretty good. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Realizations in Biostatistics. R-bloggers.com of...
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