Wen SU

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Demographer in training on formal demography and mortality. Stand-up comedian.
Wen SUMar 12, 2023
Gregg GonsalvesMar 8, 2023
Mike Worobey is one of the world’s foremost disease detectives. He did the crucial work on HIV’s origins and has focused much of his career on the evolution and emergence of viruses. This is an important piece. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-08/covid-lab-leak-energy-department-fbi
How the COVID 'lab leak theory' lost me

Contrary to conclusions by the Department of Energy and the FBI, the science on the pandemic's origins stacks up in favor of a jump from animals to humans.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadWen SUJan 16, 2023

@wrigleyfield @jonathanhorowi1

On the topic of putting cohort and period together. If I may ask are you planning on teaching anything related to CAL? I really like this paper on decomposition of CAL.
Reference: Canudas-Romo & Guillot 2015.

Show threadWen SUDec 14, 2022
@aliceroberts Wow! I’m down.
Wen SUNov 12, 2022
Josh GoldsteinNov 11, 2022
A first #demography post: Just read an interesting article called "The (Im)precision of Life Expectancy Numbers" by James Hanley in AJPH. In it, he gives a "rough empirical rule of thumb" that SE(e0) is about 150/sqrt(PYL) and about 15/sqrt(number of deaths). Here's a naive way to explain those numbers. 1/n