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Rudolph Rigger's avatar

A while back I tried to figure out some possible sources of error in VE by taking an algebraic approach. You commented on the article back then.

https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/a-fascinating-result

I take this approach because I'm not all that great with stats and data - I can "see" things much clearer with algebra.

My approach wasn't really demonstrating anything new - but trying to see the same things others had commented on but in a different (and simple) way.

Anyhoo - the point of the piece was really to highlight an effect that I'd noted : within my simple vaccination schedule model the end result for VE depended on the *percentage* vaxxed if the VE was calculated with a delay that effectively shunted the recently vaccinated deaths into the unvaxxed category.

You altered the percentage vaxxed here and found you could manipulate the efficacy. In other words you're seeing a dependence of the VE on the percentage vaxxed.

The efficacy of a vaccine should, of course, not depend on whether 10% or 20% or 80% of the population have been vaccinated. My question would be whether being able to demonstrate a dependence on vax percentage is sufficient to show "datacrime" with regards to VE?

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PERSISTENT OBJECTOR to new IHR's avatar

Does your book additionally also cover the - I think other, different from this - sleight of hand that Gato Malo called the "Bayesian Data crime"?

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bayesian-datacrime-defining-vaccine

Probably that is already covered in earlier parts of your article series.

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