Statistics in a crisis - Significance magazine
In a crisis, do you gamble on fast but imperfect data – or wait for accuracy that might come too late? When the clock is ticking, how do statisticians balance...| Significance magazine
In a crisis, do you gamble on fast but imperfect data – or wait for…| Significance magazine
Statistics in a crisis| Significance magazine
John Snow memorial in Broadwick Street, London. Photo by Justinc, sourced from WikipediaThere is a…| Significance magazine
Statistics in a crisis| Significance magazine
Statistics in a crisis| Significance magazine
Significance uses statistics to answer society’s most difficult questions. We challenge myths and provide a unique perspective on events.| Significance magazine
In a crisis, do you gamble on fast but imperfect data – or wait for accuracy that might come too late? When the clock is ticking, how do statisticians balance...| Significance magazine
What is the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science 2025?| Significance magazine
Football fans say a team plays better in their home stadium, thanks to the familiarity of the environment and the quantity of fans cheering them on. The August 2021 issue... The post Home advantage: what’s changed since Covid? appeared first on Significance magazine.| Significance magazine
Chris Dalla Riva writes about pop music and data, and his debut book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves is reviewed in the... The post “Musical evolution is often downstream of technological innovation”: An interview with Chris Dalla Riva appeared first on Significance magazine.| Significance magazine
Everything you need to know about the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science, and what to expect from its fourth outing on 14 October 2025 The...| Significance magazine
Immaculate Kathomi Murithi is a statistician at the Kenya Revenue Authority and co-founder of the charitable organisation Educate A Rural Girl Have you enjoyed numbers/maths/data since you were a...| Significance magazine
To coincide with our Africa special issue of September 2025, we interview Tanzania-based Susan Rumisha about her work on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, and her life beyond the laptop. ...| Significance magazine
5 minutes with: Susanna Cramb| Significance magazine
Nicole White is an associate professor of statistics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She is also a statistician and researcher at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation...| Significance magazine
The post How sharp was the decline in live births in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communist regimes? appeared first on Significance magazine.| Significance magazine
Susanna Cramb is a biostatistician and a strategic research fellow at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She is also a member of...| Significance magazine
Despite big reputations in the statistical community, many women statisticians are not as well known as their male counterparts. Amanda L. Golbeck decided the written word could, and should, remedy...| Significance magazine
The story of three groundbreaking Scottish statisticians was named the winner of the 2025 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing last night. ‘Early Scottish statisticians and their lasting legacy’ –...| Significance magazine
Public fears that census data could be used for nefarious purposes are hardly baseless. In this extract from her new paperback, Timandra Harkness shows how mechanised data collection was used... The post Punch-cards, concentration camps and René Carmille appeared first on Significance magazine.| Significance magazine
Hospital league tables could be returning to the UK. On the 21st anniversary of the Royal Statistical Society Working Party report on Performance Monitoring in the Public Services, Sheila Bird...| Significance magazine
Richard Leigh is Significance magazine’s long-serving copy editor, carefully cleaning up and polishing articles before they reach readers’ eyeballs How long have you been Significance’s copy editor? I started copy...| Significance magazine
Investigating the impact of extreme temperatures on women’s mortality: a curious case study from India, underscoring the need for global data equity Are women at higher relative risk of...| Significance magazine
