Photo by Riley McCullough on UnsplashUniversities around the United States are struggling to deliver their…
Sheldon H. JacobsonOctober 1, 2020
Much has been said about the demographic trends of Covid-19. It has been widely reported…
James JacksonJuly 27, 2020
Photo by Edwin Hooper on UnsplashThis comment concerns the most common reasons mortality has been…
B. Piedad UrdinolaJuly 10, 2020
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…
Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020
Photo by Dan Burton on UnsplashThis note considers the different measures of the death toll…
Simon BriscoeMay 13, 2020
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…
Kathryn LeemingMay 5, 2020
Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
Photo by Brian McGowan on UnsplashIn many parts of the world, the outcome of the…
Andrew GarthwaiteApril 21, 2020
Photo by Isaac Quesada on UnsplashThe Royal Statistical Society’s Statistical Ambassadors have collated an essential…
RSS Statistical AmbassadorsApril 9, 2020
Photo by Zhang Kenny on UnsplashIn order to answer the most pressing questions we have…
Tarak ShahApril 9, 2020
Photo by Markus Spiske on UnsplashLanguage is powerful, and how we use it subconsciously shapes…
Narcyz GhineaApril 9, 2020
HMS Terror. Engraving by George Back. via Wikimedia Commons It remains one of history’s best-known…
Keith MillarSeptember 28, 2016
In the second instalment of our new 'Ask A Statistician' column, Peter McIntyre, a pharmaceutical…
Brian TarranJanuary 5, 2016
In September this year, the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will come to an end…
Julia HallAugust 25, 2015
In mid-September, the US witnessed yet another mass shooting. This time a gunman made his…
Michael A. LewisSeptember 24, 2013
Recently we noted here that there is a strong seasonal pattern in mortality in England…
Andrew McCullochFebruary 27, 2013
The public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Trust again raises the question…
Andrew McCullochFebruary 11, 2013
I listened to David Cannadine on Radio 4 a few weeks ago telling the story…
Andrew McCullochFebruary 6, 2013
A somewhat bizarre statistic heard on the radio this morning. The discussion was on the…
Julian ChampkinJanuary 14, 2013
