If you are interested in seeing some in depth charts, graphs and statistics on survival in the Hunger Games, look no further. Grad student Brett Keller obviously spent a lot of time compiling this, totally worth checking out.
As a student of epidemiology and economics I feel duty-bound to apply my cursory knowledge of statistics to the novel natural cohort presented in the Hunger Games novel, as documented by author Suzanne Collins. I present a Hunger Games survival analysis: in a Cox proportional hazards model, which covariates are associated with the odds (or hazard ratios) being ever in your favor? A taste of what’s to come:
The agenda:
- an explanation of the Hunger Games and facts relevant to this analysis
- a snappy literature review of peripherally-related things other scholars have written on the subject
- construction and presentation of data set
- do the Gamemakers rig the draw? an analysis of expected lottery outcomes in scenarios differing by tessera and demographic trends
- the main event: a Cox proportional hazard model to explore predictors of survival time in the 74th annual Hunger Games.
(Spoiler alert: there will be book spoilers throughout this post. I haven’t read the second and third books yet, so please don’t spoil them for me or others in the comments. I look forward to analyzing their data as well, and the integrity of this very important research will be enhanced if I can pre-specify the hypotheses I’ll test before I’ve observed the outcomes. Data-mining is not the fanboy way.)
There is so much more, make sure you continue reading HERE
