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Nightingale’s overlooked Scutari statistics – full table

The table below is the full version of the edited table published as Table 1…

Brian TarranNovember 6, 2020

Making dough

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Cooking up statistics: The science and the art

Photo by Gaelle Marcel on UnsplashLetisha Smith – winner of the 2018 Award for Statistical…

Letisha SmithJanuary 14, 2019

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Advertise in Significance Significance is an official magazine and website of the Royal Statistical Society,…

Super UserMarch 13, 2017

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Refereeing the abusers of statistics

Statistics being used to conveniently back-up a certain point of view or simply quoting false…

Oz FlanaganAugust 14, 2013

Richard III

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Now is the winter of our uncertainty made glorious summer by this sun of journalistic zeal

A skeleton in a 21st century car park. A king dragged off his horse and…

Julian ChampkinFebruary 8, 2013

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The historical price of petrol – how bad do we have it?

Ministers this week debated whether the government should scrap a planned increase in fuel duty,…

Claire PackhamNovember 22, 2011