News
World Cup, agentic AI in healthcare, Rousseeuw Prize, Spain’s birth data and more
Puzzle
Moriarty’s fiendish problem. Plus the solution to “Holmes acquires a horseless carriage”
Editorial
Moving and grooving
LATEST ISSUE
September 2026 volume 23 issue 5
NOTEBOOK
PERSPECTIVES
Positive publication bias
Better than it’s been made to sound?
Improvisation for statisticians
How the actor’s craft can help us think on our feet
Leadership
Six more steps to take you out of the backroom and into the boardroom
Bad stats
This issue: the dubious statistical reasoning used by US courts against federal workers
Cartoon & From the archive
Letters
What do you think?
Crossword
A good start, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Questions answered
New editorial board member Sinjini Mitra talks about her life and work
STATSCOMM
Book review
Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works by Helen Pearson, reviewed by Kevin McConway
FEATURES
Album closing tracks
Is there a recognised pattern in the way artists say goodbye?
Radiation and risk statistics
Returning to Fukushima
Climate data adjustments
An explainer
Novel statistical methods
Examples of natural experiments, citizen science and changepoint detection
The procurement pioneer
How a data scientist made supplier selection easier for his company
PROFILES
Genichi Taguchi
PROFILES
A celebration of the Japanese engineer and statistical innovator
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