Bert Gunter wrote: > Folks: > > Thought that many on this list might find this amusing, perhaps even a bit > relevant. Hope it's OK: > > ************ > WASHINGTON - The government's estimate of the number of Americans without > health insurance fell by nearly 2 million Friday, but not because anyone got > health coverage. > > The Census Bureau > <http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Census+Bureau> said it has > been overstating the number of people without health insurance since 1995. > The bureau blamed the inflated numbers on a **12-year-old computer > programming error**.[emphasis added -- BG] > ************** > > So what does "validated software" really mean? (Rhetorical question -- no > reply sought). > > Details of what went wrong are at
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/usernote/usernote3-21rev.html (executive summary: They imputed coverage for some people who were actually covered by another household member's policy). Looks like a mistake you can make in any programming language... > Cheers to all, > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA 94404 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
