well, I do not know where to put this post...since the author seems to be famous for Bayesian, here might be a good place.
This post is from Marginal Revolution blog, see: good sentence
"We originally wrote this article in Word, but then we converted it to Latex to make it look more like science."The link is here. It is the best analysis of zombification I have seen to date. For the pointer I thank John Chilton.
Abstract
The zombie menace has so far been studied only qualitatively or through
the use of mathematical models without empirical content. We propose to use
a new tool in survey research to allow zombies to be studied indirectly without
risk to the interviewers.
注：看到此文的题目，关于僵尸的研究，
刹那间想起那个著名的游戏“植物大战僵尸”……最有意思的是作者自己在脚注中所写的“Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York. Please do not tell my employer that I spent any time doing this.”
... 有空一定要看看僵尸研究论文的内容了。