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21st February 2018
What does a statistician do on a day off? He goes to Rightmove, and makes himself ill by looking up the prices of his first London flat, in dear old Bow E3.
Because statisticians never take the day off, not really, I plotted the sales price for the property against time, which I’ve measured as the number of days from 26 November 1997, when the property was first built and sold.
The red dots show the price recorded at the Land Registry for each sale. We can see the flat has been sold five... Read More >
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