Probability puzzle: A certain bet
Photo by Sandro Schuh on UnsplashFor fans of the England soccer team, this summer’s European…
Michael FletcherOctober 18, 2021
A call for contributions on Covid-19: looking back and looking forward
We are now more than 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic. Thanks to the contributions…
Finalists announced for 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing
Today we are announcing the finalists of the 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing,…
Brian TarranJuly 8, 2021
Governments in Africa have doubled ‘false news’ laws, to little effect. Another way is possible
Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash In the five years after the world woke…
Peter Cunliffe-JonesJune 7, 2021
Misinterpreting statistical anomalies and risk assessment when analysing Covid-19 deaths by ethnicity
Bigstockphoto/Andreajk3Imagine there is a country called Bayesland that is divided into two distinct geographical areas…
Using Zipf’s law to help understand Covid-19
Photo by Glen Carrie on UnsplashThe Covid-19 pandemic is a rapidly moving challenge. As countries…
Debra M. Boka, Paul Velleman and Howard WainerMarch 18, 2021
Vaccine rollouts, school testing and contact tracing could all be improved – here’s how
Photo by Steven Cornfield on UnsplashA bitter lesson of the past month is that viruses…
Sylvia RichardsonFebruary 8, 2021
Leicester makes history in testing times
Photo by Geoffrey HaywardLeicester made demographic history as the first city in England where the…
Sheila M. BirdJuly 23, 2020
A long tradition: Discussion meetings at the Royal Statistical Society
Discussion meetings are the most prestigious of the many types of meetings organised by the…
Paul A. SmithJune 16, 2020
A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…
Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020
Removing the pump handle: Stewarding data at times of public health emergency
John Snow memorial in Broadwick Street, London. Photo by Justinc, sourced from WikipediaThere is a…
Reema PatelMay 20, 2020
Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?
Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
Pandemic influenza and Covid–19: Geographical velocity and control
Photo by Juan Cruz Mountford on UnsplashOn 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew CliffApril 22, 2020
Visualising the pandemic: interviews with data journalists covering Covid-19
Photo by Brian McGowan on UnsplashIn many parts of the world, the outcome of the…
Andrew GarthwaiteApril 21, 2020
Finding Nightingale: Introducing our April 2020 special issue
Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86. Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet.…
Brian TarranMarch 23, 2020
Book review: Superior, by Angela D. Saini
“The key to understanding the meaning of race is understanding power,” writes Angela D. Saini.…
Olivia Varley WinterJune 7, 2019
Statistics in court: Incorrect probabilities
Although both the law and statistical theory have foundations that rest on formal rules and…
Jim Norton and George DivineApril 9, 2019
Statistics in court: An interview with a juror
Statisticians have a crucial role to play in ensuring fairness and justice in the legal…
Kelly H. ZouApril 9, 2019
Probably maybe: Ice cream variation
Photo by Mark Cruz on UnsplashThe saying goes that “probabilities are counter-intuitive”. A simple problem…
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos and Spiros DoxiadisMarch 20, 2019
Six Nations rugby: increased predictability (despite England upsets)
With the Six Nations rugby championship kicking off this weekend, we have two years of…
Ray StefaniJanuary 28, 2019
