“I want to be ready to answer questions we don't yet know we need to know”: An interview with Alison Pritchard
The deputy national statistician and director general for data capability at the UK Office for National Statistics talks toBrian Tarran about putting new data sources to work, survey transformation, and the shape of the data landscape post-Covid (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Brian Tarran Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
On Sir David Cox's publications
Mario Cortina Borja, Julian Stander, andGiovanni Sebastiani analyse some of the tens of thousands of citations for the hundreds of papers produced by David Cox in a publishing career that spanned more than 70 years (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - March 29, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Mario Cortina Borja,
Julian Stander,
Giovanni Sebastiani Tags: Profiles Source Type: research
Probability puzzle: How many balls in the bag?
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Source: Significance - February 3, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Fletcher Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Toc
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Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Contents Source Type: research
Editorial
New year, new questions (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Brian Tarran Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
News
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Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Letters
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Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Letter Source Type: research
Randomisation can do many things – but it cannot “fail”
Although randomisation has long been seen as crucial to reaching reliable insights from data, it is still falling victim to some peculiar – and troublesome – misconceptions. ByArthur H. Owora, John Dawson, Gary Gadbury, Luis M. Mestre, Greg Pavela, Tapan Mehta, Colby J. Vorland, Pengcheng Xun and David B. Allison (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Arthur H. Owora,
John Dawson,
Gary Gadbury,
Luis M. Mestre,
Greg Pavela,
Tapan Mehta,
Colby J. Vorland,
Pengcheng Xun,
David B. Allison Tags: Features Source Type: research
The art of data privacy
Statistics are vital for understanding society, but they can pose a risk to the privacy of individuals who contribute their data.Claire McKay Bowen illustrates some of the methods used to minimise that risk – with the aid of a famous artwork (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Claire McKay Bowen Tags: Features Source Type: research
The “reliable history” of geohazards
Estimating rates of occurrence over time of hazards such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes is crucial for risk assessment and planning. But it can be difficult. Human records only go back so far, and older ones may be patchy, making it hard to pinpoint the start of the “reliable history” for a particular type of event. Fear not, though, saysJonathan Rougier: a simple event-rate estimator might still hold up, even if we “overshoot” the reliable history by a century or more (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Jonathan Rougier Tags: Features Source Type: research
Towards statistical best practices for gender and sex data
Suzanne Thornton, Dooti Roy, Stephen Parry, Donna LaLonde, Wendy Martinez, Renee Ellis andDavid Corliss call for a more inclusive – and informative – approach to collecting data on human gender and sex (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Suzanne Thornton,
Dooti Roy,
Stephen Parry,
Donna LaLonde,
Wendy Martinez,
Renee Ellis,
David Corliss Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Blurring the lines Journalism and epidemiology in the time of corona
Journalism has borrowed tools and expertise from epidemiology in reporting on Covid-19. Epidemiologists should borrow from journalists too, saysSandra Alba (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Sandra Alba Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
Does media coverage of mass public shootings create a contagion effect?
Mass public shootings in the United States have increased in number and severity in recent years, and there has been a corresponding rise in media reporting of such incidents. Does media coverage of these events lead to a short-term increase in the probability of additional shootings?James Alan Fox, Nathan E. Sanders, Emma E. Fridel, Grant Duwe andMichael Rocque investigate (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: James Alan Fox,
Nathan E. Sanders,
Emma E. Fridel,
Grant Duwe,
Michael Rocque Tags: Features Source Type: research
Microscopium Statisticum and the etymology of statistics
Wallace Ferguson delves into a 350-year-old text to understand its place in the history and development of “statistics” as we know it (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - January 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Wallace Ferguson Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
