Questions answered: Rob Mastrodomenico
The football-crazy sports statistician gained his PhD in statistics from the University of Reading, and is the founder of Alchemax Analytics as well as the vice chair of the Royal Statistical Society's sports section (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - November 21, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Editorial
Kick bait (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - November 21, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Anna Britten Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Puzzle
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Source: Significance - October 11, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Fletcher Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
A place where women thrived: UK Social Survey Official Statistics
Women had a strong presence in the workforce of UK Social Survey Official Statistics from its inception.Joy Dobbs was part of a cohort of women recruited in the 1970s and 1980s as government survey statistics expanded. This cohort joined and enhanced an environment and culture that nurtured and developed female talent, including two women who became National Statistician (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Joy Dobbs Tags: Features Source Type: research
The female of the species: Baboon mothers and a courageous career move
Lucy Cooke celebrates the “fiercely analytical mind” of Jeanne Altmann, whose statistical work in the 1960s rescued animal mothers from evolutionary obscurity (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Lucy Cooke Tags: Features Source Type: research
Toc
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Contents Source Type: research
Editorial
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Altea Lorenzo ‐Arribas,
Sandra Alba Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
News
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Letters
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Gender equity in digital health: AI as a double ‐edged sword
Alyssa Columbus describes flaws in statistical methods used by digital health platforms, how these shortcomings could contribute to gender health disparities, and what can be done to minimise inequities (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Alyssa Columbus Tags: Features Source Type: research
Bayesian networks versus gender bias
Gender-sensitive statistics can highlight gender gaps, but current measurement tools have serious limitations Here,Fulvia Mecatti,Paola Vicard,Flaminia Musella andLorenzo Giammei explore how Bayesian networks could help improve the measurement, monitoring and prediction of gender equality (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Fulvia Mecatti,
Paola Vicard,
Flaminia Musella,
Lorenzo Giammei Tags: Features Source Type: research
A place where women thrived UK Social Survey Official Statistics
Women had a strong presence in the workforce of UK Social Survey Official Statistics from its inception.Joy Dobbs was part of a cohort of women recruited in the 1970s and 1980s as government survey statistics expanded. This cohort joined and enhanced an environment and culture that nurtured and developed female talent, including two women who became National Statistician (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Joy Dobbs Tags: Features Source Type: research
The female of the species Baboon mothers and a courageous career move
Lucy Cooke celebrates the “fiercely analytical mind” of Jeanne Altmann, whose statistical work in the 1960s rescued animal mothers from evolutionary obscurity (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Lucy Cooke Tags: Features Source Type: research
Baseball's natural experiment
In his winning entry for our 2022 Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing,Lee Kennedy-Shaffer explains how statistics can help us evaluate rule changes in sport (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Lee Kennedy ‐Shaffer Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
