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,
Julian Stander,
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
Covid ‐19 in Italy: Modelling, communications, and collaborations
When Covid-19 arrived in Italy in early 2020, a group of statisticians came together to provide tools to make sense of the unfolding epidemic and to counter misleading media narratives. Here, members ofStatGroup-19 reflect on their work to date (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Features Source Type: research
Oh no! Puncture!
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Fletcher Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
References
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Profiles Source Type: research
Can data visualisations mobilise people to act?
Monika Fr ątczak shares findings from her PhD research exploring emotional responses to datavis and engagement with climate-related issues (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Monika Fr ątczak Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
When should data and code be made available?
Sharing data and code as part of a research publication is crucial for ensuring the computational reproducibility of scientific work. But sharing should be done at the article submission stage, not after publication as it is now, sayRachel Heyard andLeonhard Held. Statisticians and data scientists have the skills and tools to make this change and lead by example, though there are obstacles to overcome (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Rachel Heyard,
Leonhard Held Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Pandemic studies: Remote learning during Covid
When the pandemic forced university students to study at home,Sinjini Mitra andDenise Stanley set out to understand the impact this would have on student experiences, course outcomes and future preferences (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Sinjini Mitra,
Denise Stanley Tags: Features Source Type: research
Remembering Sir David Cox, 1924 –2022
Sir David Cox died on 18 January 2022 at the age of 97. News of his passing was met with an outpouring of tributes. To the Royal Statistical Society, he was “one of the most important statisticians of the past century”. At Nuffield College, Oxford, he was hailed as “a pioneering statistician”. The MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge called him “a giant in the field”, while at St John's College, Cambridge, he was celebrated as “an inspiring scholar”. In this special collection of articles, friends and colleagues remember Sir David in their own way, while also reflecting on his immense contributions to statis...
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: David Firth,
Nancy Reid,
Deborah G. Mayo,
Heather Battey Tags: Profiles Source Type: research
The Covid communicators
Two years ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, statisticians, epidemiologists and journalists around the world took up the challenge of trying to explain to the public exactly what was happening, and to draw insights from the mass of data being produced.Timandra Harkness interviews three individuals about their experiences of becoming Covid communicators (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Timandra Harkness Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
One more thing …
A prose poem for Florence Nightingale (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Leach Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Puzzle
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Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
