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USA FDA and Bayesian trials

Who chooses the prior? And other questions

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Holmes acquires a horseless carriage
Plus the solution to “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it”

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Neverending search

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This issue: “promiscuous dichotomisation” and why sugar doesn’t cause herpes

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Risky Business, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword

Questions answered

Meet new editorial board member Anusha Natarajan

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Book review

Data-Driven Hollywood by Violaine Roussel, reviewed by Jamie G. Joseph

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Beer mile 

A statistical analysis of a growing new sport

Prison remand

How the inappropriate use of remand to prison custody in England and Wales is ruining lives and wasting money

Mass shootings

The complex web of factors behind mass public shootings

What is kurtosis?

Even stats textbooks get it wrong. A brilliant explanation of an often bamboozling statistical measure

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