FeaturesNews Rugby World Cup 2023: Were the predictions right? Rugby Vision is a suite of models that produces tournament forecasts and game-by-game predictions for…Niven WinchesterNovember 14, 2023
News Shortlist announced for 2023 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing Judges have enjoyed reading another year of strong entries for the 2023 Statistical Excellence Award…Anna BrittenJuly 4, 2023
News 2022 Early Career Writing Award: And the winner is… Rule changes in baseball are the focus of the winning article in the 2022 Statistical…Anna BrittenJuly 14, 2022
News Finalists announced for 2022 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing Today, Significance is delighted to announce the finalists of the 2022 Statistical Excellence Award for…Anna BrittenJune 27, 2022
News Women of Significance? Significance bills itself as “a magazine about statistics and data science, written by experts for…Anna BrittenJune 14, 2022
News Meet the new editor of Significance: Anna Britten As Significance editor Brian Tarran moves on after eight years and 47 issues, there's a…Brian TarranJune 6, 2022
Editor's pickNews Remembering Sir David Cox – a 12-page tribute in our April issue Sir David Cox died on 18 January 2022 at the age of 97. News of…Brian TarranApril 1, 2022
News Call for contributions: Women in Statistics and Data Science – A Special Issue In support of the first Annual International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science,…Brian TarranMarch 8, 2022
News Enter our 2022 writing competition for early-career statisticians and data scientists Data and statistics are helping people around the world chart a course through the Covid-19…Brian TarranJanuary 26, 2022
News Significance puzzles A list of "Probability puzzles" published in Significance. Problems are featured online and in print.…Brian TarranJanuary 17, 2022
News Our most read articles of 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has been the dominant story of 2021, much as it was in…Brian TarranDecember 13, 2021
News What is risk know-how? "Risk know-how is about informed decision-making. Every risk entails a trade-off with the benefits and…Brian TarranNovember 30, 2021
News A call for contributions on Covid-19: looking back and looking forward We are now more than 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic. Thanks to the contributions…Brian TarranSeptember 29, 2021
News “Pietro the Weather Tortoise” wins early-career writing prize Can a pet tortoise predict when it’s about to rain? An article that sets out…Brian TarranJuly 12, 2021
News Finalists announced for 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing Today we are announcing the finalists of the 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing,…Brian TarranJuly 8, 2021
News Winner of Early-Career Writing Award announced Maria Ibrahim was this week named as the winner of the 2020 Statistical Excellence Award…Brian TarranSeptember 9, 2020
News Angela Saini, Stats + Stories, and more: Significance at RSS 2020 We are just over two weeks away from RSS 2020, the Royal Statistical Society’s first…Brian TarranAugust 20, 2020
News Finding Nightingale: Introducing our April 2020 special issue Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86. Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet.…Brian TarranMarch 23, 2020
News A World War II investigation, updated for the modern era © IWM ( FLM 2000)"In the early morning of 13 June 1944, one week after…Brian TarranOctober 9, 2019
News Significance at the RSS Conference Significance is in Belfast from 2-5 September for the 2019 RSS Conference. As part of…Brian TarranAugust 30, 2019