Betting on a royal birth: how many babies will be born the same day?
On 4 September 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – better known as “William…
Shomoita Alam and James HanleyFebruary 22, 2018
Tinkering with how we measure child poverty won’t help end it
There has been no real change in the proportion of children living in poverty in…
Does Christmas really come earlier every year?
It has become something of a cliché to remark upon the ever earlier arrival of…
Nathan CunninghamNovember 11, 2014
Do home sales bolster automobile sales?
'To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong' -…
Kevin DavenportAugust 27, 2013
Statistics against irritations: a response to Dickens’s apologists or If high readership is the test of good writing, then 50 Shades of Grey is a work of genius…
Recently I discussed my article1 which reported the results of the test where the takers…
Mikhail SimkinMay 7, 2013
2013: Year of Statistics, hospitals, cows, and living to 100
Happy New Year. Especially (for a statistical site) because 2013 is, officially, the International Year…
Julian ChampkinJanuary 7, 2013
