Biased statistic leads to less spending for severe railway accidents

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 08:00 in Mathematics & Economics

City University London Professor of Engineering Development, Professor Philip Thomas, says that the Department for Transport's (DfT) safety policy on severe railway accidents, is based on opinion measurements that were filtered using the Valuation Index, a statistic biased in favour of low values.

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