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."</p>
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,[s:12]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.”