Posts Tagged ‘death’
Unemployment and Risk of Death- Assessing a Causal Relationship in New York City
December 30, 2014
Our research considers the assessment of claims that there is a direct and positive causal relationship between the unemployment rate and mortality rate, overall, in New York City. We examined mortality data, but also incorporated some illness data. The main data sets include the unemployment rate in New York County, NY from late 1900s to […]
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Examining Risk: Fire, Death, and Underlying Factors
December 22, 2014
The general population tends to blame the Fire Department of New York (FDNY)‘s response times as the primary reason for injury and death in New York City fires (Guart). Using data from FDNY Vital Statistics, arguments made by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles in his book The Disaster Experts, and public opinion as represented in newspaper […]
