Georgiou takes case to European Court of Human Rights
Former national statistician of Greece, Andreas Georgiou, claims right to fair trial was violated (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 24, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Questions answered: Anna Britten
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Source: Significance - May 24, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Crossword
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Source: Significance - May 24, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Puzzle
Non-transitive dice (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 24, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Fletcher Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
War of the Wordlers
Wordle, a word puzzle game, is a viral phenomenon. But who plays it better: humans or machines?Mary J. Kwasny investigates (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 24, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Mary J. Kwasny Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
What is Cox's proportional hazards model?
Robert Tibshirani gives an overview of one of David Cox's most widely applied ideas, for which he was awarded the International Prize in Statistics in 2017 (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 30, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Robert Tibshirani Tags: Profiles Source Type: research
Toc
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Contents Source Type: research
Editorial
A statistician of staggering importance (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Brian Tarran Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
News
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Book Reviews
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Thomas King Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Letters
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
That's not a two ‐sided test! It's two one‐sided tests!
When reporting tests of significance, researchers might claim to have conducted a two-sided test when in fact they have conducted two one-sided tests.Mark Rubin explains the confusion and how to avoid it. (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Mark Rubin Tags: In Practice Source Type: research
Covid lockdowns in the UK: Estimating their effects on transmission
UK citizens have lived through three lockdowns over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. What effect have these restrictions had on the transmission of the virus?Emily Prestige, Julian Stander andYinghui Wei investigate (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Emily Prestige,
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Yinghui Wei Tags: Features Source Type: research
Underdispersion: A statistical anomaly in reported Covid data
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we have become used to seeing daily numbers of cases and deaths go up and down. But in some countries, the reported numbers show very little movement over days and weeks – they are “underdispersed”, saysDmitry Kobak, and this may be a sign that all is not right with the data (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Dmitry Kobak Tags: Features Source Type: research
