Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
Bradley Efron (pictured) was awarded the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for the creation of…
James J. CochranNovember 23, 2018
On 4 September 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – better known as “William…
Shomoita Alam and James HanleyFebruary 22, 2018
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a prestigious event and a hot-spot for finding…
Levon DemirdjianDecember 11, 2017
https://unsplash.com/@jamie452I have decided to build a model to try to predict the results of the…
Gianluca BaioMay 30, 2017
In 2016, Queen Elizabeth II entered the tenth decade of her life and cemented her position as…
Anastasia FrantsuzovaApril 12, 2017
Our latest 'Ask a statistician' question received not one but two different solutions. We published…
Brian TarranDecember 14, 2016
Evolution is change in the heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations. Through these…
Marco Geraci and Mario Cortina BorjaAugust 23, 2016
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/umairadeeb/The narrative cliff-hanger is a fiendish device – ramping up drama and tension only…
Richard ValeApril 21, 2016
When elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church on 13 March 2013, the Argentinian priest…
Julian Stander, Luciana Dalla Valle and Mario Cortina BorjaFebruary 18, 2016
Part of the job of a statistician is to make inferences about a population from…
Mario Cortina Borja & Julian StanderDecember 7, 2015
One of the most memorable errors in statistical analysis is a scene from The Empire…
Will KurtMarch 27, 2015
In a recent article, I mentioned the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, the aim of which is…
Mikhail SimkinMay 30, 2013
