News
ONS chief quits, Pope Leo, Grace Wahba, Sullivan Review and more
Puzzle
A tribute to John Haigh
Plus the solution to “An evening of bridge”
Editorial
The statistics of success
ONS chief quits, Pope Leo, Grace Wahba, Sullivan Review and more
A tribute to John Haigh
Plus the solution to “An evening of bridge”
The statistics of success
Is there any point in involving members of the public in your highly technical statistical methodology research?
Analysing data to interrogate the claims of a controversial US gunshot detection system
Why physicists make exceptional data scientists
Our regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups. This issue: base-rate fallacy
Florence Nightingale David by Amanda L. Golbeck, reviewed by James J. Cochran
Feedback from Significance readers
Easy as…, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Meet Marcia Philbin, chief executive of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
The data analyst and author discusses the riveting history of British official statistics
How hard is it really to make money on Broadway?
The effect of dragon and snake years on marriages and birth
We interview the vice president of methods and innovation at the leading US “fact-tank”