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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2026/3/8/ai-vs-statistics-students</loc>
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      <image:title>Blog - AI vs. Undergraduate Statistics Students - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Gemini’s graph of the difference in absentee votes vs. the difference in machine votes for the historical elections, with the contested election indicated by the red diamond.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - AI vs. Undergraduate Statistics Students - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Gemini’s graph of the proportion of absentee votes going to the Democratic candidate vs. the proportion of machine votes going to the Democratic candidate, with the contested election indicated by the red diamond.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Interpreting the 2024 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Homicide rates from the CDC and FBI, 1990-2024. See the Data Sources section for comments on how these statistics are calculated.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Interpreting the 2024 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Violent crime rates for rape, robbery and aggravated assault (“serious violent crime”) as measured by the FBI and the NCVS. The NCVS statistics for 2006 are deemed unreliable (Tapp and Coen, 2024) and are not displayed. See the Data Sources section for comments on how these statistics are calculated and on changes to the NCVS in 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Interpreting the 2024 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. NCVS response rates for personal interviews, 1993-2024. In 2024, the overall response rate fell below 50 percent for the first time.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-22</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/11/25/vital-statistics-during-the-1918-influenza-pandemic</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Vital Statistics During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. States in national death registration area, 1918. Dates of entry are from Dunn (1936)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/9/23/the-1918-influenza-pandemic-and-statistical-evidence</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Statistical Evidence - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Examples of anecdotes about influenza vaccine effectiveness, from Value of Vaccination against Influenza (1918).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/8/24/what-is-your-inflation-rate</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - What is Your Inflation Rate? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Relative importance of each expenditure category for calculating three versions of CPI: national, for the Phoenix metropolitan area, and for persons aged 62 and over. For each version of CPI, housing has the highest relative weight, accounting for more than 40 percent of the index.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - What is Your Inflation Rate? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Relative importance of each category for national CPI-U and my July 2024 expenditures.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - What is Your Inflation Rate? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Percentage increase in cost for each category in my market basket, compared with CPI-U.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/7/4/benjamin-franklin-and-exponential-growth</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Benjamin Franklin and Exponential Growth - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Estimated US population from 1650 to 2020 in (a) original scale (b) log base 2 scale.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/5/4/star-wars-characters-statisticians</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-04</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/4/18/kirstine-smith</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Kirstine Smith, Statistical Pioneer - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Kirstine Smith in 1896 or 1897. Public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Kirstine Smith, Statistical Pioneer - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Examples of polynomial functions for k=1 (straight line), k=2 (quadratic), and k=3 (cubic).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Kirstine Smith, Statistical Pioneer - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Candidate designs for estimating a polynomial function.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/03/08/how-many-people-attend-religious-services-part2</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 2 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Table 1. ATUS estimates of percentage of adults attending religious services on each day of week. “Fri + Sat + Sun” gives the sum of the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday percentages and the last row sums the percentages for each day of the week. The columns on the right contain the standard errors for the estimates.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 2 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Estimates of attendance from American Time Use, Gallup, and AEI surveys. The estimates from ATUS are lower than those from the other two surveys.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2025/1/10/how-many-people-attend-religious-services-part1</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 1 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Table 1. Estimated percentages of U.S. adults reporting various frequencies of attending religious services. Source: Jones (2024) and Benz et al. (2023).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/10/4/2023-crime-statistics</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Homicide rates from the CDC and FBI, 1990-2023. See the Data Sources section for comments on how these statistics are calculated.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Rape, robbery and aggravated assault as measured by the FBI and in the NCVS. The NCVS statistics for 2006 are deemed unreliable (Tapp and Coen, 2023) and are not displayed. See the Data Sources section for comments on how these statistics are calculated and how the pandemic may have affected the NCVS statistics in 2020 and 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Screenshot of Crime Data Explorer main webpage taken September 28, 2024.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/9/22/how-ai-created-a-nonexistent-statistician</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/7/4/george-washington-survey-taker</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - George Washington, Survey-Taker - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Survey done in 1949 by 17-year-old George Washington, County Surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia. Source: https://virginiahistory.org/learn/george-washington-land-surveyor.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - George Washington, Survey-Taker - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. George Washington’s 1791 letter to farmers requesting information about crops and prices. Source: Washington (1803), pp. 23-24.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - George Washington, Survey-Taker - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Page 1 of George Washington’s School Copy Book, 1745. Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw1a.002.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/5/24/an-autobiographical-journey-through-ai</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - An Autobiographical Journey Through AI - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Percentage of faces classified as the correct gender. Data from Table 4 of Buolamwini and Gebrit (2018).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/5/13/using-data-to-make-roads-safer</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-02</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/4/15/does-asphalt-art-improve-traffic-safety</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-24</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Figure 1. Asphalt art at the intersection of McAllister Avenue and La Jolla Drive in Tempe, AZ.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 2. Average number of crashes per year at each site, before and after the asphalt art installation. The line at the top is for the site in Atlanta.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2024/2/15/data-for-vote-decisions-in-a-city-council-election</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data for Vote Decisions in a City Council Election - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Percentage of votes for incumbents and non-incumbents in previous Tempe City Council elections.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data for Vote Decisions in a City Council Election - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Percentage of votes attained vs. amount of money raised as of January 15 before the election. Points for the 2022 election are black, and points for the 2020 election are blue. Two candidates (one from each year) were missing financial information; these candidates had the lowest vote totals.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/10/31/statistics-misquotations</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-03-15</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/11/16/crime-statistics-2022</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-02-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Statistics 2022: Interpreting the Trends - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Homicide rates from the CDC and UCR, 1993-2002.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Statistics 2022: Interpreting the Trends - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Rape, robbery and aggravated assault as measured in the UCR and NCVS. The NCVS statistics for 2006 are deemed unreliable (Thompson and Tapp, 2023) and are not displayed.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/10/27/statistical-thinking-as-a-core-skill-for-career-success</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-01</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/9/23/how-voltaire-used-probability-theory</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-16</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/7/30/is-the-perfect-really-the-enemy-of-the-good</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-23</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/7/4/alexander-hamilton-founding-statistician</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-07-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Alexander Hamilton, Founding Statistician</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Alexander Hamilton, Founding Statistician</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Alexander Hamilton, Founding Statistician</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2023/3/31/enhancing-survey-programs-by-using-multiple-data-sources</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Car Safety Debates - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1 . Number of deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1975 to 2021. Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Car Safety Debates - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Number of deaths from motor vehicle crashes per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, 1975 to 2021. Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Up, Down, or Sideways? Looking at the 2021 Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: Thompson and Tapp (2022). The vertical lines are 95 percent confidence intervals for the estimates.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Up, Down, or Sideways? Looking at the 2021 Crime Statistics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Homicide rates from 1980 to 2021. Source: annual National Vital Statistics Reports on Deaths: Final Data for [year] and Simon et al. (2022). The spike in 2001 was due to the deaths caused by the 9/11 attacks.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - What if France Had an Electoral College? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Percentage of Electoral College (top line) and popular (bottom line) vote received by the winner of the US presidential election, 1860-2020. The black circles indicate years in which the winner in the Electoral College lost the popular vote.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Statistics in the Time of COVID-19 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Every Data Table From Now On, from https://xkcd.com/2502/</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Statistics in the Time of COVID-19 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Trends in violent crime, from https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend. This graph shows the number of offenses per 100,000 population for each year from 2010 to 2020, based on SRS data reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies. The crimes included in this graph are homicide, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery. The SRS statistics can be downloaded from https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/downloads.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Statistics in the Time of COVID-19 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Rates of serious violent crime (rape, robbery, aggravated assault) from the NCVS (black and blue lines) and FBI statistics (red line). Data sources: NCVS dashboard and FBI Crime Data Explorer. The NCVS statistics from 2006 are omitted because of methodology differences for that year.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Classification by Dante and the FBI - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Map of the nine circles in the Inferno. Public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crime Classification by Dante and the FBI - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Dante and Virgil among the falsifiers, by Gustave Doré. Public domain.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-10-03</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-09-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Beware this Cognitive Bias when Interpreting COVID-19 Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Reference distribution for height of U.S. adult men. Tom’s height is shown by the blue dot.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7f148eec4eb7ee4ea24591/1599235445978-EC7BX6IWZWV3JXSHMD0D/histogram090220.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Blog - Beware this Cognitive Bias when Interpreting COVID-19 Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Number of deaths from COVID-19 per 100,000 population for 57 countries, Jan 22 - Sep 1, 2020. The blue rectangle shows the U.S. position.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Beware this Cognitive Bias when Interpreting COVID-19 Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Deaths per 100,000 population for 57 countries.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-09-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Revisiting COVID-19 Model Predictions from April</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. IHME model prediction (solid blue line) for Arizona on April 13, 2020, along with the 95% uncertainty intervals (light blue shaded area) for the predictions. The red dots show the actual number of cumulative reported deaths through August 3.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Revisiting COVID-19 Model Predictions from April</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. General shapes of curves in model used for Figure 1 for (a) daily number of new reported deaths and (b) cumulative number of deaths.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7f148eec4eb7ee4ea24591/1596553207449-ZG1CVJFNJJAGQ2F8CXIB/italy+080220.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Blog - Revisiting COVID-19 Model Predictions from April</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. (a) Daily deaths from COVID-19 in Italy, along with smoothed line. (b) Cumulative (total) deaths from COVID-19 in Italy, along with smoothed line.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Statistical Legacy of Hull-House Maps and Papers: Part 5</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Wage Map 1 from Hull House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Statistical Legacy of Hull-House Maps and Papers: Part 5</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Map of part of Philadelphia’s 7th ward from Du Bois (1899).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Statistical Legacy of Hull-House Maps and Papers: Part 5</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Nationalities Maps from Hull-House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Display Decisions for the Hull-House Maps: Part 4</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Tenement and Family schedules, from Residents of Hull House (1895).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Display Decisions for the Hull-House Maps: Part 4</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Map of poverty in East London, from Booth (1889). The London School of Economics has high-resolution downloadable files of the full set of maps.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Display Decisions for the Hull-House Maps: Part 4</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Wage Map 1 from Hull House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Data and Display Decisions for the Hull-House Maps: Part 4</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 4. Nationality Map 1 from Hull House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Agnes Sinclair Holbrook and the Hull-House Maps: Part 3</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Lecture Room at Hull House, from Kelley (1898b). Public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Florence Kelley and the Hull-House Maps: Part 2</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Florence Kelley at Cornell. Public domain</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Hull-House Maps &amp;amp; Papers, 125 Years Later: Part 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Nationalities Maps from Hull House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Hull-House Maps &amp;amp; Papers, 125 Years Later: Part 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Wage Maps from Hull House Maps and Papers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Taking an Antibody Test? Some Statistical Concepts to Keep in Mind</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Steps for filling in a population table for a diagnostic test.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7f148eec4eb7ee4ea24591/1589326366036-7ISZ86MH3OP0NH37QKIL/Sensitivity+Figure+2.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Blog - Taking an Antibody Test? Some Statistical Concepts to Keep in Mind</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Population tables under different scenarios for (1) assumed infection rate (20% or 1%), (2) false positive rate (1% or 5%), and (3) false negative rate (1% or 5%).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Taking an Antibody Test? Some Statistical Concepts to Keep in Mind</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Estimated population table when 5,000 of the 100,000 people actually have antibodies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 1. Projected number of deaths in Arizona through August 4 from the IHME model (as updated on April 13, 2020). Data source: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america. April 13 is the date where the blue shading starts in the graph.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - COVID-19 Prediction Models, Explained with Pictures</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Function form used to estimate (a) daily number of deaths and (b) total (cumulative) number of deaths for each location.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - COVID-19 Prediction Models, Explained with Pictures</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Eight of the infinitely many possible curves that can be drawn using the basic IHME model.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - COVID-19 Prediction Models, Explained with Pictures</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 4. Data for the total number of deaths in Arizona, through April 12. There is little information on which to fit the whole curve, so model predictions for Arizona rely heavily on information from other localities.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - It's Census Day!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. 2020 Census Self-response Rate as of March 31, 2020 vs. 2010 Census Final Self-response Rate. Data source: 2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html, accessed March 31, 2020.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - It's Census Day!</image:title>
      <image:caption>FIgure 2. Self-response rates (March 31, 2020) for counties in Arizona.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Please Stop Comparing COVID-19 Deaths with Traffic Fatalities</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Number of confirmed cases in the U.S. Source: Johns Hopkins University, downloaded 10:48 am EDT March 25, 2020.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Please Stop Comparing COVID-19 Deaths with Traffic Fatalities</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Fatalities from traffic crashes per 100,000 population, from 1966 to 2017. Data source: NHTSA Traffic Safety Facts, Table 2.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Spend a Few Minutes of Pi Day with the 2020 Census</image:title>
      <image:caption>The invitation letter to participate in 2020 census, downloaded from census.gov.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-07-23</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Figure 1. Frequency of Fanny Price’s tearful episodes in Mansfield Park, for chapters grouped in sets of five, counting episodes mentioning “tears,” “crying,” or “sobbing.” Each night of sobbing during Fanny’s first week at Mansfield Park, in Chapter 2, is counted separately.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Stratified Random Sampling, Aristotle, and Democracy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Kleroterion in the Ancient Agora Museum (Athens). Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Stratified Random Sampling, Aristotle, and Democracy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Reconstructed kleroteria from the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading. Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-11-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Edith Abbott. Public domain</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Interpreting the 2018 Statistics on Violent Crime</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Victimization rates for serious violent crimes (left) and simple assault (right) from NCVS. The vertical lines represent the 95 percent confidence intervals for each estimate.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Interpreting the 2018 Statistics on Violent Crime</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Rates of all violent crime (left) and homicide alone (right) from the FBI reports Crime in the United States. These statistics include only crimes that are known to law enforcement agencies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pure, light, flaky, buttery goodness</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How An Arizona Baker Used Statistics to Make the Perfect Croissant</image:title>
      <image:caption>Part of the display case at Early Baker</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-09-19</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-06-22</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-07-14</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2019/8/16/how-did-edith-abbott-come-to-write-about-crime-statistics-in-1915</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-05-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - How Did Edith Abbott Come to Write about Crime Statistics in 1915? Part 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Edith Abbott. Public domain.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2019/7/22/coffee-is-better-with-statistics</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-09-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Coffee is Better with Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Table 1. Design in “standard” order.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Materials used for coffee experiment</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Table 2. Results from the coffee experiment. These are listed in the randomized order in which the experiment was run.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Case of the Distorted Crime Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Violent crimes per 100,000 residents from UCR data, 2010 – 2017.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Case of the Distorted Crime Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Violent crime rates for cities with population between 50,000 and 100,000, for 2015. The red rectangle indicates Buckeye’s position.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Case of the Distorted Crime Statistics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 3. Percentage of violent crimes that are homicides (diamond) along with 95 percent confidence interval (horizontal line), 2014 to 2017. The vertical line shows the national statistic of 1.3 percent.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - One Poll Respondent Could Determine Participation in the June Democratic Debates</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Probability that candidate meets criterion for being included in the debate, as a function of the number of polls that include the candidate’s name.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - One Poll Respondent Could Determine Participation in the June Democratic Debates</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Expected value of the average percentage supporting the candidate from the three highest polls, as a function of the number of polls listing the candidate’s name.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - High-Income Families and Student Debt: Why Survey Weights Matter</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1. Survey weights vs. family income (both axes in log scale)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - High-Income Families and Student Debt: Why Survey Weights Matter</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2. Percentage of outstanding education loans held by families in each income quartile, among families in which the head is age 25 or older. The graph on the left gives the correct statistics; the statistics in the other two graphs are incorrect. Bars do not sum to 100 percent because of rounding.</image:caption>
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