It seems that there have been a high number of "celebrities" dying in the last few months.
In the first four months of 2016 there seemed, to the casual observer, to be an unusually high incidence of deaths amongst 'celebrities'.
The background is straightforward. Death is normal, even for famous people. But is there a statistical anomaly? Perhaps not so much.
To begin with there are more celebrities now than ever before. Before the age of television,...