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dear stats geeks:
An epidemiologist with too much time on his hands has taken his “cursory” stats aptitude and applied it to pop culture by doing a Hunger Games survival analysis.
As a student of epidemiology and economics I feel duty-bound to apply my cursory knowledge of statistics to the novel natural cohort presented in the Hunger Games novel, as documented by author Suzanne Collins. I present a Hunger Games survival analysis: in a Cox proportional hazards model, which covariates are associated with the odds (or hazard ratios) being ever in your favor?
The agenda:
- 1. an explanation of the Hunger Games and facts relevant to this analysis
- 2. a snappy literature review of peripherally-related things other scholars have written on the subject
- 3. construction and presentation of data set
- 4. do the Gamemakers rig the draw? an analysis of expected lottery outcomes in scenarios differing by tessera and demographic trends
- 5. the main event: a Cox proportional hazard model to explore predictors of survival time in the 74th annual Hunger Games.
Not bad, though it might be more reproducible if he’d posted SAS code instead of Stata.
